Practice Over Theory
“You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t [know] why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.”
— Joi Ito
As you can probably tell, a lot of theory doesn’t make sense to me. What even is theory? I think a lot of us in this program are beyond confused about what the point of our theory class is. Is it just a class for us to discuss whether we’re victims or perpetrators of capitalism? Is that theory? I want to make. I want my work to be useful and usable. I want to design with purpose. I want to make things and design things. I have very little interest in discussing the symbolism and hidden meanings within design work in depth. I want to create and I want to create things that serve a purpose.