Control and Chance in Design: or from thought to action
Sometimes the connections we make between different objects or events, in space and across time, seem wholly coincidental and circumstantial. As we move through the world, leaving trails of thoughts behind us, we accumulate a store of memories and loose associations that have emerged through contact with speech and things. Some connections just fall away and are lost forever, submerged under a host of privileged moments and pressing engagements. However other connections are merely dis-placed, sidelined by the same moments and engagements but preserved as a latent memory. The latter is merely put to one side in anticipation of future action, subsumed under the social schedule of work-and-play.
This is the story one such memory, first generated and then laid to rest at the conference Repositioning Graphic Design in October 2005. It was finally remembered – or recuperated - at the exhibition Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World in June 2006.