WEEK #34 - Inspiration

There is inspiration everywhere we look. Just open your eyes and mind. We get so sucked in to day-to-day events, that we, sometimes, forget to look around.

Part of my job is to educate the eye and bring to life your innermost desires when it comes to interior design. Or, at least, that is my goal. I see it as design therapy. The process is far from being easy. All of you who have been through a renovation know what I am talking about. How many of you have said “I will not renovate another house again”? Because the process is challenging on yourself, on myself, on relationships of all sorts.

I started this article thinking I will talk more about this week’s inspiration and my mind is going towards a different idea; one that has been stuck with me for a while - ontological design. It’s been years now thinking about it. I have been talking about it in the past; yet, now I feel ready to dive into deep.

What is ontological design?
’’ Ontological design is the design discipline concerned with designing human experience. It does so by operating under one essential assumption: that by designing objects, spaces, tools and experiences, we are in fact designing the human being itself.” (find the article here)

Interior design is so much more than a beautiful space. It is your oasis, your world, your safe space. But to be able to find that for you, we need to jump into personal details. And how many of us are willing to open up to that? We have a hard time opening up to a therapist; what does an interior designer know about that, right?

Interior design is a complex idea. Adding ontological design into the matter, we move away from the superficial aspect of it, like style and technology, and we go more towards what kind of worlds we are creating through design and how these are viable for the life we want to live in to.

With these ideas in mind, we get to the question: “what is design and what does it do for us?”

Anna-Marie Willis says “designing is fundamental to being human” and that “design is something far more pervasive and profound” than most textbooks present it as.

“A human being cannot exist independently of its surrounding environment — it is not possible to be without being-in-the-world.” (Martin Heidegger)

We still have a lot to learn (you and I, both!). I have a very, very hard time dealing with the superficial aspect of design; Our society is overloaded with that already. I do not want to do it anymore. I want to get to know you, your space, your desires and fears. I want to create an oasis that is exactly for you and inspires you. And I am aware I am not signing in to something easy here, but I feel deep down that this is my calling. To combine my curiosity about the world around us with interior design. We have lived enough in superficial houses, offices, relationships. We, all of us, forgot how to communicate and we jump from one thing to another.

The information is for all of us to access, but it is tucked in between all of the superficial information out there that surrounds us. We live in a very complex world that we generationally designed. When we worked on simplifying our lives, we lost the depth of matters. We have simplified our endless loop, which, among all its good aspects, has made us emotionally and structurally illiterates. We need to be concerned with how design is implanted in and raises the world that we are, in turn, formed within (our endless loop).

This theme will be deeply discussed here and we will learn together about it.

My goal is that by the end of 2024 I will be re-designed Danza Sphere as it was first thought out to be: an interior design company rooted from ontological design.