Immersed in a society saturated with visual information, victims and participants of the over-importance of aesthetics, we have lost perceptual skills and reduced our efforts to create spaces that allow us a complete sensorial experience. As in other fields, the design of spaces has been judged and misunderstood, reduced to aspects that, though accompanying the purpose of the design in question, should not be considered main objectives (i.e.: decoration).
The fulfillment of fundamental space design objectives has been compromised. No, this design should not try to create a striking or attractive image, it should be responsible.
On the one hand, there is the concept of “space.” Despite being a much-debated term, argued throughout history in many different fields, and without seeking a universal definition (I am conscious of the arduous labour this would entail), we can understand it here as a sensitive physical reality in which we live and to which we relate constantly. It is a concept that loses meaning if it does not involve a human being.
On the other hand, we have design. It is equally difficult to define and can mean many things: It can respond to needs, raise questions, proclaim values, explain, teach and show. Yet like space, without a user, it does not exist.
And so we need a reflection that will guide us towards revaluing the sensory belonging, intrinsically, to the design of a space.
(s)pace - Laura Ann Mendoza Bowen
(s)pace - Laura Ann Mendoza Bowen
(s)pace - Laura Ann Mendoza Bowen
(s)pace - Laura Ann Mendoza Bowen