Life Imagination and Design

My two- book series on amazon is called Design Thinking for everyday people. The first book in this series , “a window for a home without walls: life imagination design” was released on June 14th 2020 and the second one, “Finding Your Beebo” was released on July 11th 2021.

While most designers have written prescriptive or descriptive books targeted at fellow professionals and clients, I decided to write a book that empowers imagination of everyday people with life lessons and design values. It is my way of making a designerly contribution to one technology that will never be outdated – human imagination.

This series is also born out of my belief that true design of life is an ongoing process that is guided by human curiosity, compassion and creativity. Physical artifacts that we call design are only a manifestations of these human capacities. Professional Designers are only the elite in the society who claim higher sensitivity and domain expertise in design and thereby seek control over all of design of life. But I decided it is time to recognize design of life by everyday people and to give them the tools for cultivating curiosity, compassion and creativity.

There isn’t a better tool than poetry to embed profound values, evoke compassion, inculcate curiosity and to inspire creativity in human minds. That is why I decided to let my mind wander through my own internal resources collected through decades of practicing curiosity, imagination and creativity.

My first book was written for adults, the second one for children, and my next venture will be a book of nursery rhymes for infants. The purpose is not to immerse the readers in solitude, but to create a dialogue across generations about foundational values for living a life of wonder. I want the ideas in my book to inspire music. I want people to hum the songs that emerge from the book, meditate and dance to the lines. Through such a visceral experience will emerge designerly way of reflection, projection and building of a convivial society. In his book Tools for Conviviality Ivan Illich envisions a society guided by the principles of “Playful Sobriety”. That is what I would like my books to evoke.

Please gift my books to your friends and family. Let the children in your family grow up humming the lines,

I hope that these books will help make Design values the core values of humanitarian and ecological foundation for building of the future.