Our mainly planed environment leaves little space for creativity or the individual needs of a single person. But there is an uncensored and vital kind of design, by which everybody can cooperate. Ramps are moulded to pedestrian crossings, flowers are planted into tree grates, trails emerge in parks, because at exactly that place they are right and therefore important. This is the anonymous design of our environment, without claim to awareness and secondary impact like personality cult, success and fortune. It is about determining and changing your own environment by yourself and in this way increasing the quality of living. Anonymous design is functional, need-orientated and timeless.
In spite of the proceeding globalisation these “conquests of environment” look different from land to land. These changes are expression of identity! – your identity; may it be that you created them, may it be that you’re the one who recognized them. If you considered the modification to be convincing, you probably make use of it soon. Tomorrow you will perhaps make something totally new caused by your observation and you will be happy to see, that somebody else is doing the same.
The anonymous designers give those things a stage. To show how easy and multifaceted good design can be.
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