Valueholders

 I just figured, Stakeholders as commonly used term vs holders of stake when used, can sound very different !

For a designer, when you are designing in or a system, you are looking at and conscious of the interfaces of the system enabling by design for every participant in adding value to the performance of the system, therefore Valueholders, the rewards are though stakes by default or incidental, that’s not the preoccupation of a designer, like Rao says, designers are Value creators.

Ravi | from Notepad | Nov 2024

A Message to the Design Schools

Your task and responsibility is creating and training young design minds who are,

sensitive, passionate, subjective & objective, free thinking, lateral in thought, yet middle path in approach of meaningfulness, contextual awareness in time space & surroundings, concern towards needs and action, make easy the things, comfortable in complexity and ambiguity, see the whole and parts, examine & capture, highly skilled, draw & sketch, make & demonstrate, conceive ideas, conceptualisers & visualisers in any media of expression, who take creative leaps & challenge, romance with beauty & form,….

By Design.

This is your challenge and work towards realising such Products of Design Professionals for more informed and sustainable futures and not chase the default futures!

 

 

Ravishankar VS | Notepad | 14 Nov 2024