Week 1-Free Response

For this free response blog, I want to voice an opinion I have always felt strongly about that I believe relates to design and the natural world around us. As human beings living in a consumerist society, we're always concerned with the newest model or the nicest things. I'm not trying to point a finger, as I govern myself along the same lines, but merely introduce a point.

 

You always hear people talking about how nice the new Lamborghini model looks but rarely will you hear about how beautiful natural rock formations are or how colorful fish in the sea are. 

              

To me, nature's design trumps everything. Take the grand canyon for instance. The Grand Canyon is what it is today due to the natural processes. The shifting and changing of our earth's crust over many years has carved out this enormous section. To me, that's beautiful. Although the design of a new Lamborghini is a triumph of human ingenuity, it always trumps the natural world around us. Another example of this disparity is our own human body. People are fascinated with computers and how fast they are in today's world yet no one really acknowledges that our body is the best computer ever created. 

 

Our nervous system is responsible for taking in stimuli in the forms of smell, sight, sound, and touch and reacting appropriately in an unfathomably fast time. Computers can do something similar but you need a human being to give it the actions independently.