Why Design Matters

“What we design, designs us back.”

Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.

[EmilBrikha]

Short, sweet and 100% on point. I love the part about architects not being celebrated enough. Beautiful!

[TaylorWilkz]

As a design/interactive systems major this is really resonating with me.

[paiggey]

Mate, if you got back to careful dissection of the memes we carry around with us like in "The Big Picture" and "Existential Bummer", instead of repeating yourself you can build on these concpets and ideas to start proposing solutions and philsophical treatments for these maladies.

Love you man, you're still an inspiration.

[AlexanderEmmanual]

I think you could've dived into this subject much more deeply. The idea of design and visual stimulus is so important. As long as we have our sight than the visual is every single day of our life. It's every conscious moment. The aesthetic can be a labelled as superficial but I think it has the capabilities to dive deeply into our psychology of who we are and how we think. The visual is art and art is beauty.

[vincentiusolomon]

Jason, you manage to give me the chills every time I hear you speak. Truly inspiring. Thank you.

[West]

As much as it pains me when these are so short I love them just as much. Such a simple thought 'Design matters', explained beautifully. I've always thought this and have never said it either, I don't know if you do your editing Jason or if that is part of your team but the editing and imagery is also so beautifully 'written'. I feel like this channel is not celebrated enough.

[samuelvidal]

I'm a 'software architect' and I relate so much to what he says. It might seems a shallow play on words, but actually this is strangely profound. Same goes for mathematicians who are the architects of abstract thinking etc..

[Bmello]

Great message. Art is so important to our mental health and often overlooked.

[svennyzooi]

I love your philosophy of design, as an architecture student this is really inspiring!

[parnianx]

Architecture matters. That's so true, but there's no place for an architect, in a world the money and the power to 'design' is in the hands of the ones who know nothing about its importance, and the scale of an 'architect' who works in the industry is measured by how many square meters he adds to the price tag of a property. The society rejects talents, a graduate doesn't have the experience and she/he gets rejected and has to turn to other ways to make a living because her/his imagination and design ideas are not celebrated or invested in.
What we design designs us back, and we do not realize how our ugly cities are affecting and probably destroying all the creative potentials every individual has.
Architecture matters.

[walk.]

Design is creativity and creativity is key to all success :)

[greg]

You touched on a good point. It has to be interdisciplinary and today much of it is. Modernism actually had a lot going for it. Its mistake was the singular drive of planning and architecture. So caught up in how the future was unfolding for them, they neglected what other sectors and industries would require. Scolding the visionary artists of the time is the wrong approach as they were just doing their job. it's every other profession that had yet to catch up. The fault is theirs for not understanding their future and making clear their intentions. . Mostly because they were captivated by money in the present.

[adirakessler]

The music for this video is "Embraced" from Liquid Cinema.

[ThePartyofTen]

Yes!! Love it. To have the ability to design and transform another's perspective is not valued enough for sure.

[jaimeraigosa]

Design just as sex, has been part of the human nature since the beginning and will continue to driven our future

[magne]

Anyone ever read something about a mix between the multiverse hypothesis and darwin's evolutionism and natural selection? Like, apply some of the same concepts for (mega)macroscopic entities so that our universe, being only one of many, would've figured out the 4 fundamental forces, the universal constants and intelligent life with the fibonacci sequence all over the place for example. But a problem to solve on the next one would be the heat death???. Idk, maybe counsciousness is here to find some kind of bugs, letting to know itself what to fix on the next try? Btw this has nothing to do with the video, just something that's been on my head for a couple of days.

[PC-husx]

Script of this episode, English is not my first language, so I'll be glad if someone correct me including punctuation.

"What we design, designs us back"
'I think a lot about pshycology of spaces, the intension of our architecture, capacity to design, dwelling in from our inner world. Walking to Rome you start feeling better. you don't quite know why the realized the mighty shape, minds, shadows reminds everything about how we've installed impregnated mind intention and agency into the physical form show us the ways in which architecture which design is really about the designer's inner spaces new design without you design the within this is a wonderful idea. I think architects don't get celebrated enough in our society because these are the people that allows the design citys, spaces and dwellings in which we unfold, it anything architecture work together with psychology with designers winners and the impact of shapes shadows and form upon human subjectivity. Design matters architecture, Architecture matters. '

[MagicAndReason]

"I'm fucking amazing, just ask me."

- Jason Silva

[koilk]

shout out to all the architects and construction workers

[rwoz]

Architects don't get celebrated because modern architecture mostly is crap. Bunch of dead, uncharacteristic and uninspiring buildings is what we are surrounded by more and more these days. I regularly take a specific route from one place to another in my hometown and it kills me a little to see the boring surroundings over and over again. Studies tells us that about 80% want more classic architecture, and the rest want modernism. But the vast majority of new buildings are modernistic.