Hide and Seek.

William James wrote in The Hidden Self, “The great field for new discoveries is always the Unclassified Residuum.”

If we can understand design practice as implicating advanced insight, awareness and expertise, we may correspondingly experience ‘outcomes’ as agile or fluctuant amalgamations of theory, analysis, process, responsibility, activism, and storytelling. Here, ‘things’ can exist as peculiar expressions of ‘connected affordances,’ rather than as physical manifestations, commodities, or products.

Resulting synergies and interventions might progressively galvanise designers to re-appraise their discipline as a different kind of social and creative activity or experiment, which will demand different types of interdisciplinary learning spaces, tools, methodologies, stakeholders, evaluators, audiences, and epistemology.