Teaching is learning: can teachers be co-learners?

Can a spatial design express the same content that a poem, music, painting, sculpture, dance or a drama can express?

Let us not be afraid of trying out a new idea, a new design - just because you haven’t seen anything similar before or just because the teacher or client may not like it. Ask ourselves - why not?

Isn’t the basic design concept the most important & essential starting point in the design process?

Can we explore the innumerable 3D possibilities that lie hidden in a 2D plan?

Shouldn’t our designs be value based to play their role as an agent of social change?

Can we be attentive, aware, observant of all that happens around us - learn from these live experiences and translate this learning into an architectural expression?

Aren’t we all unique in some way or the other ? Do not compare yourself with each other - but compare yourself with what you are today to what you were yesterday.

Can we ‘let go’? let go of conditioned responses and look at everything afresh with a child like curiosity, abandon and joy?

Could we allow our sub-conscious to surface and work for us to create a design that is so much subjective rather than objective?

Shall we allow our designs to transcend the various ‘isms’ to relate & respond to our daily lives?

Shirish Beri & Associates shirishberi.com