EXPERIENCEIs a practical force. Observation, awareness, insight. It’s in the beach trail you hiked one day, the person’s smile you learned by heart, the gooey graham cracker crumbs and the smell of smoke that were left on your sweater after a long night spent around the campfire. It is the bike you learned to ride, the shoe you learned to tie, the ball you learned to catch. We are the sums of the knowledge we have assembled and committed to memory, a personal encyclopedia.
Such ordinary understanding and awareness has helped to shape our personal histories and qualify our humanity. Now, the alarm clock rings, we become conscious, snagged for a moment on the beauty of our own reality and of that that surrounds us. And gradually or suddenly, as human beings, as designers, we discover that we are the creators, the magicians, the conjurers, the tool makers and we do not just find ourselves, we create ourselves.
