4/43 days Design Experiment

“Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object–oriented, real–time, computer graphic–simulated environment.”

― Bruce Mau’s An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

There's no mechanism as powerful as traveling to change some previous perception about who we are, the life we are having and the world that surrounds us. Even the slightest change of environment provokes this kind of displeasure that comes from leaving a comfort zone or routine.

It doesn't have to be a long trip to the other side of the world. Of course, that's really cool but doing something different for a day during the weekend — maybe by yourself — has also the ability to impact an inertial way of life. Taking a car or a bus and going explore the neighbor city or a beach city. Just walk around and visit some place.

Maybe the place has nothing really special or impressive. But it works out the same way. You can feel it on your way back home that something changed, that you changed.

“A man must travel. By his own, not through stories, pictures, books or TV. He’s got to travel by himself, with his eyes and feet, to understand what is his. To one day plant his own trees and value them. Knowing the cold to enjoy the heat. And the opposite. Feel the distance and absence of shelter to be well under his own roof. A man must travel to places that he does not know to break this arrogance that makes us see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or can be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have not seen, when we should be students, and simply go see ” — Amyr Klink

I read this excerpt a lot while I was traveling around Asia. And it says pretty much everything someone could say about it, about the joy of being on the road exploring the world and the sense of gratitude that comes out of the experience.

— Design based on this tutorial: https://youtu.be/mOS6Qotb_v0