AT EXTREMES: Imbalance and Unpredictability as a Productive Practice

Examining the notion of extremes takes us away from a centre point, characterized by its predictability, balance and familiarity, and, instead, and moves us towards a condition where unpredictability, disequilibrium and strangeness become the new normal.  The way in which we define the familiar centre and its complimentary, capricious extreme and their respective potentials for design intervention and innovation is the primary investigation presented in ds.