Imagination makes future present
Imagination makes future present
Trusting your design imagination can feel lonely at the times.
Imagination as strategic design process for interpreting the present, challenges our assumptions, and givens. Imagination opens the threshold between the now and the unexpected.
Almost any attempt to imagine that things could be different - especially if we reprioritize values of design situation - will face some kind of resistance.
Facing resistance can be frustrating and create doubt, insecurity and can feel lonely at the times. But facing this kind of resistance should be part of designers sensibility - and come along with a vision of new possibilities. When we realize that we have a choice, resistance can actually be exciting since it leads to ongoing learning and development.
When facing resistance we may also recognize that imagination is not evenly distributed. It’s why we largely live in the now.
Designers are on the threshold and imagination makes future present, as part of the context and active resource for design process.