On Doing

I’ve been here in the US for a little more than two months. It’s been a new and shocking experience in many senses. But my first quarter is about to end. I will be here for six quarters, but three of them will be devoted to the thesis. I know what they talk about now when they say prototype, need-finding, human factors, framework.

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Knowing all that and trying to apply it has been definitely nourishing, interesting and defiant. Trying not to skip something (considering my formation as an Architect doesn’t match some parts of the system proposed here) has been hard.

However, there is always some faith to be put in something, and that’s been the most hard thing. I truly believe that the process presented here is good and that it works. But I can’t but continue to think that a big part of a great design has nothing to do with this process or anyother. What makes me think this way is that, still, when I go out, all of the objects I admire have been made with another or no process.

And I think there is a great beauty in judging the process by its results. It puts things back in the human sphere, were they belong.