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So you eventually managed to get through to this very special page.
In effect it is the place where I intend to tell you some ultimate reflections.
I use the word 'reflection' here in the sense that was given to it by the
romanian german poet Paul Celan, who took
it perhaps from the Cabbala
as we will see later, when he talks about a mirror, that reflects
the current of events: 'am blanken Wundenspiegel vorbei', 'along the blank
mirror of wounds', he tells us in the poem 'Die Schwermutsschnellen hindurch',
meaning that poetry reveals human tragedy. Not that I am a pessimist
as you can see from the next maximum (I intend to suggest several more
of them in these pages)
"Real insight is the limit of good design"
This will need some explanation. Designers pretend to contribute to a better
society but you can take any example and see how short fetched good designed
products are in this regard. Take cars, for example a good designed car
like the Porsche 911, and ask yourself in how far it has contributed to
the solution of the problem of transport . The answer is not encouraging:
cars, as they are conceived till now, are not yet an optimal response to
the global quest for environmental sound transport systems. For a designer
it is better not to question to deeply the social impact of his design
else he changes profession, but in the same breath I accept and promote
good design, we must only recognize that this is practicably impossible
without closing our eyes for its obvious limits. I even go further and
state that, in order to be an inspired designer, a certain degree of stupidity
is indispensable. Or perhaps it is better to say that truly creative people
are excluding, at least partially, from their active brain its capacity
for rational reasoning. In its place sensitivity is enhanced, especially
concerning three-dimensional forms, colors and finishing. It is manifest
that I intent in this 'special page' to counterbalance my intended systematic
approach in the other pages with an alternative way of acquisition
of knowledge, perhaps even of another type of knowledge altogether. (cf..
Fernando Gil (1))
By the way, this page is concerned with many topics but only marginally
with design itself. If design is your main boon you better go back to the
main files, like index, before you get bored.
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(1) Fernando Gil, Conoscenza , in Enciclopedia III
p.778, Giulio Einaudi editore, Turin, 1978 |
