I'm also slightly annoyed that the Bauhaus as a school of thought didn't come up. You can't escape the idea of merging the spirit, the mind, and the body in a simple object without encountering the Bauhaus. It's an equally radical view, since Tom view could be seen as elitist in a totally different view: why are a bunch of designers running around participating to take others ideas and working on them- or teaching others how to think. Gropius is radical that design is physical craft skills- that there may be different kinds of design craft (nurse-craft) and innate intelligence for all these kinds of crafts for everyone.

… Although we may achieve an awareness of the infinite we can give form to space only with finite means. We become aware of space through our undivided Ego, through the simultaneous activity of soul, mind and body. A like concentration of all our forces is necessary to give it form. Through his intuition, through his metaphysical powers, man discovers the immaterial space of inward vision and inspiration. This conception of space demands realization in the material world, a realization which is accomplished by the brain and the hands.
The brain conceives of mathematical space in terms of numbers and dimensions. . . . The hand masters matter through the crafts, and with the help of tools and machinery.
Conception and visualization are always simultaneous. Only the individual's capacity to feel, to know and to execute varies in degree and in speed. True creative work can be done only by the man
whose knowledge and mastery of the physical laws of statics, dynamics, optics, acoustics equip him to give life and shape to his inner vision. In a work of art the laws of the physical world, the intellectual
world and the world of the spirit function and are expressed simultaneously.

_Walter Gropius

(Never avoid him, he rewrote the book on design during one of the most radical periods of time, the Weinmar)

I'm also slightly annoyed that the Bauhaus as a school of thought didn't come up. You can't escape the idea of merging the spirit, the mind, and the body in a simple object without encountering the Bauhaus. It's an equally radical view, since Tom view could be seen as elitist in a totally different view: why are a bunch of designers running around participating to take others ideas and working on them- or teaching others how to think. Gropius is radical that design is physical craft skills- that there may be different kinds of design craft (nurse-craft) and innate intelligence for all these kinds of crafts for everyone.

… Although we may achieve an awareness of the infinite we can give form to space only with finite means. We become aware of space through our undivided Ego, through the simultaneous activity of soul, mind and body. A like concentration of all our forces is necessary to give it form. Through his intuition, through his metaphysical powers, man discovers the immaterial space of inward vision and inspiration. This conception of space demands realization in the material world, a realization which is accomplished by the brain and the hands.
The brain conceives of mathematical space in terms of numbers and dimensions. . . . The hand masters matter through the crafts, and with the help of tools and machinery.
Conception and visualization are always simultaneous. Only the individual's capacity to feel, to know and to execute varies in degree and in speed. True creative work can be done only by the man
whose knowledge and mastery of the physical laws of statics, dynamics, optics, acoustics equip him to give life and shape to his inner vision. In a work of art the laws of the physical world, the intellectual
world and the world of the spirit function and are expressed simultaneously.

_Walter Gropius

(Never avoid him, he rewrote the book on design during one of the most radical periods of time, the Weinmar)