Metropolis Magazine - Brilliant Simplicity
Brilliant Simplicity Tour Recap from Eve Dilworth on Vimeo.
I’ve had the privilege of viewing Brilliant Simplicity at ECCO Design Studio. The video is comprised of environmental technologies and advancements in areas of architecture. The film features the works of the winners and runner-up candidates from The Next Generation Design Competition.
Immediately following the film you are engaged in what I can only describe as, “Necessary Conversation”. Each event will yield its own benefits, but I guarantee it will be inspiring. I feel adamantly that it’s the responsibility of the architect and designers to implement these educations into practice. However, there must be committee’s to lobby and create policies and/or industry standards for these types of technologies.
As an architectural designer, I speak for the design community in saying, that our variables are too many to make these ideas a mandatory means of practice. In regards to municipal codes, budgetary restrictions and client’s wishes to name a few.
My analogy at the event was:
As a consumer of (let’s say) a “CAN” of soda, for example. We buy the “CAN” and we have the option to recycle it. Much like the architect with this knowledge can use these ideas or not. But sometimes people recycle and sometimes they don’t. Same as an architect with an idea. And most, if not all the time, recycling isn’t a solution, but rather a means to an end for a bigger problem. And on a scale of each household doing something occasionally, the difference to the problem really isn’t that great, but it is a start, don’t get me wrong. But if we directly contacted the manufacturer of the “CAN” from the beginning and the “CAN” became something altogether different, than haven’t we swayed the difference dramatically with one small, but large, move. So the “CAN” may all of a sudden become decomposable or embedded with seeds to reharvest land. So to reiterate my initial thought, is that we need to target our national and local standardization laws and the production of these technologies to make a real difference.
When you think about any end result it starts with liability.
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