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In
1979, I was a filmmaker in residence at the University of Colorado in
Boulder. I was making my first film using a high 8 camera. The Head
of the Film Archives – the center of independent film making in the
world – directed it. In the film, I sculpted my body into a rock
formation in a natural 
amphitheater called Red Rocks, where many rock
stars perform. He filmed me breaking away from the rock formation. It
was quite beautiful to see his adaptation of my poetry in breaking away
from the constraints of the earth vis-à-vis the constraints of
the mind and the constraints of society.
The
film was about adapting to change and breaking away. To this day, I
am still breaking away from preconceived notions of what an artist is,
what a designer is, and what the future may become.
Global
Design
When I speak of design and global design, I mean not just design as
artists and designers, but the intricacies of people coming together
from various fields and meshing their ideas together to solve problems.
As a strategic planner, I think about formats and formulas, strategic
plans, strategic goals, where we are going, how we are going to get
there and how people can work together to do so.
Design
is one way to build and guide the impact of curative technologies that
will have enormous impact on global society. But what is design? If
we are talking about strategic planning, then what is the mission of
design? Here is the definition I’ve come up with:
Global
Design Mission: To make the world workable for society in the shortest
amount of time for the largest number of people with the least amount
of damage to anyone.
If
this is the mission, how does design fit into this? Design is the process
and product for which complementary and disparate parts fit together
to form a function. Figure 1 conceptualizes the global potential of design.
Figure 1
Molecular nanotechnology has potential in changing
the way the world functions and the way our specific and particular
domains function together to see this global design. The various parts
are the principles that we learn in strategic planning: social, technological,
economic, environmental, and political. Each one of these parts has
a definite position in the new incarnation of nanotechnology as it steers
itself in each domain. But this is not going to happen alone. It will
only happen with each domain working together.
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