MANIFESTO

 

MANIFESTO

“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.” A quote by Douglas MacArthur. I felt that design is all about experimenting and creating works that are open for interpretations, which in turn giving the work itself more purposeful meaning. Like the movement of Post-modernism and Deconstructivism, designers started to break the rules and created amazing conceptual works, as object being a physical vessel may just be theoretical and not necessarily functional. People constantly try to define and reason to make everything logical. However, many of the time, there are many things that are unexplainable, and many meanings or words are created by us ourselves in the first place. Too often, most of us just follow but never questioned.

To me, design serves a rhetorical purpose that allows others to think in a different perspective towards our society. By breaking rules and challenging boundaries, it could bring about discourse that creates self-awareness, a different level of thinking and understanding. Therefore, I urge everyone to not be afraid, start taking risks and embrace the unexpected. Only us, the designers have the ability to challenge others conceptually and bring about change.