I've decided I might say something

Nomad

I’ve held off having an too much of an opinion. Or at-least, say something that isn’t so non-committal.
So a nomad…hmmm…doesn’t exist. It’s just an idea yeah? Like. A nomad from Mongolia is different to a nomad from the Australian outback. So you cant really say “this guy, he’s a nomad” and expect people to have a clear image in their heads of what this guy looks like. So this means there’s a series of categories under the title nomad. So you can say “this guy, he’s an aboriginal nomad” that way people have a clearer understanding of whom you are referring to.

But.

I don’t believe that’s what we are here to discuss. The fact that a Mongolian nomad and an aboriginal nomad can be spoken about in the same discussion means that there is such a thing as a pure straight nomad. But not a physical thing. Just an idea. A feeling. So maybe its important to look at what it is that makes somebody become a nomad. I mean the actual feeling inside of us. I’m not talking about the ones born into a nomadic tribe, and just grow up living that life so its in their daily routine since the moment they breath for themselves. No. I’m talking about the fact that anyone of us could decide today that they are going to live the rest of their lives as a nomad. Wether that be an Aboriginal, Mongolian, city homeless nomad is…irrelevant. There are too many differences, variances. Lets look at the psychology of it all. What would it take for you to just stop living this life and start moving around? CORRECTION! What makes you, everyday, get up and go to uni or work?
Because as we discussed in class recently, why couldn’t we call our day-to-day travels “nomadic”.

So. Survival is a massive one. Work, money, food, consumption of nutrients.
Another big contender is conformity. Everybody else is working. I should have a job. Fit into society. Why? Because society is what you were born into. Society doesn’t like people acting differently. A little bit different is sometimes ok. But basically if you don’t belong to a category, then you have nobody to accept you. Then society, on all levels, from the scum to the rich and famous will reject you. This is what is takes to survive in society.
But as if any of this needs to be said.

So there’s like city homeless nomads, hunter nomads, this is where the brainstorm thing comes in handy. And probably what Simon was trying to get us to see. But I’m pretty sure we did it wrong. Or possibly did it right, but missed a lot of what it had to offer. Like what it really had to offer. Sorry that’s probably a pretty big assumption to make. I did it wrong. Or possibly I missed a lot of what it had to offer.

SOOOOO back to the point I was trying to make before.
What’s that feeling you get just before you decide to move? What draws us? What provokes us?
Is it the state of mind that links all these people acting in a nomadic fashion?

I think what’s getting to me is that the: who, what, why, when and how of a ‘nomad’ don’t match up. Like I said earlier, there seems to be too many variances. Well maybe to say that "they just don’t match up" is again a pretty big statement. Lets say: they are difficult to match up. I’ve never thought of these questions let alone the answers before. It's all very much for my small brain.

How much do you have to study an object...a thing, before you are in an honest position to make an opinion? To label something. Don’t ‘they’ say that labelling someone can actually alter their behaviour so that they do in-fact act like the label. How much responsibility must we take for the things that we say. How much are people listening. How many people are reading this blog.

I’ve spoken too much. See this is what I mean by non-committal. All I’ve done is asked questions. All I’ve done is ask questions? Yes.

Oh heres a crazy thought.

Design creates itself.

We evolve. We need differently designed environments. Design evolves with us. Design evolves us. Design is an evolution, feeds of evolution and provokes evolution. Design creates itself.