Calling to awareness
I am an experience strategist. I am also a poet. I came to design from sociology. These are not separate practices. Sociology finds the gap between the official account and what is actually happening. Poetry finds the image that makes the gap available to be felt. Design makes it concrete enough to build toward.
Designing experience
Sociology and poetry invite awareness of emotional relationship with the world, expanding attention, offering a way to understand things, to make them meaningful. Call it designing experience.
A loose end
Having never neatly followed a single disciplinary track, I came to design trained to pay attention to what happens between people, and then I got interested in what happens between people and things.
I haven’t given up enthusiasm and hope, facing the world around me with childlike astonishment and curiosity, wanting to see all sides at once.
