The Power of "WE"

Design is the process of understanding human purpose, then arranging physical or other strategies to best accomplish those purposes. Design tries when it can to reach poetic levels, but is often times satisfied with merely inducing practical, affordable change.

From time to time, you, the Design Center participant, or ourselves, members of the Design Center team, see something that needs explanation, research, or focussed attention to create some needed change. For those of who who chose to send us your question, we study it briefly todetermine if it is a questioin we feel we can pursue.

Sometimes, you will see us initiate a column because in the course of one of our projects we made a discovery the sharing of which might benefit others. Regardless of how the inquiry starts, you are invited to submit comments/suggestions/critiques during a period of discovering the the central problem is.

We edit and write the action statement we think best addresses what we hear our participants advocating, and which we believe expresses our values. We move toward a consensus statement of what questions must be asked, or what position we all agree to take. Once the design process is completed, we file our report or request for information with the subject's sponsor.

Participants can publically sign the report, or offer a dissenting view, or not acknowledge their participation.

Think of this forum as being your own editorial team, hooked up to a powerful research and development think and action collaborative. We will observe; inquire; probe; postulate; propose; offer opinion; and sometimes organize concerted drives to alter events or things in ways to, as our team sees it, better our communities.

If you registered for our site, you are on your way.

We request a $5 per month per email address subscription fee. Signing on to support or dissent from a project may cost up to an additional $5 per event. You might see one to three projects a month. To enroll now, please go to the shopping cart and subscribe to the City Life column.

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Welcome to the future, now!

copyright, The National Architect Corporation 28 July, 2008