INVESTIGATION

Infrequent questions

Travelling from periphery to the center of urban communication, appears some questions. These are some of the questions that SantoTipo2.0’s Team made itself, and some possible answers.


What is chaos and what is order?

A substantial part of designer’s trade is to order the information, its shapes, contents and significances under established rules.But generally we do not ask ourselves about this order’s nature.Usually, chaos and order are considered irreconcilable opposites. “Chaos” is anarchy and disorder, meaning something negative that attemps on the normal progress of human activities. From this point of view “Order” has positive meaning and an interpretation related to the correct position of things.

If these words are not thought as dichotomics it is developed that chaos and order coexists, interweaves and are related to the observation scale and point of view.

Taking as an example a mountain stream, we can see that in the current water’s particles don’t describe predictable movements, but if we contemplate the group, the stream adapts to its bed following a movement with its own order.
The same could be applied to the vehicular traffic in a big city, where we can make the reverse operation: watch with an air-sight all the connections between streets, avenues and freeways, and then with a zoom we can develop codes and rules that determine this system.

If we consider the last thing, we notice that one makes the other.
You can say that in many cases, spontaneous acts have a certain degree of planning, and where it’s supposed to be chaos, there is an underlying order that could appear from nature, culture and habits.

It’s possible that the action of “reorder” (the word suppose that there was an order before) without an environmental knowledge, produces chaos, dismantling the natural order. It’s possible, as well, to establish a new order by generating chaos.
If this is true, what is our role as designers, understanding a part of our professional activity as “put in order"? It’s clear that we don’t propose to center the discussion on this point. We only suggest thinking the profession further than the act of ordering. Adding other points of view and expanding sight.


What is visual pollution?

The common dictionary’s definition of pollution is Environmental degradation or purity’s alteration of something.
Generally the urban control’s organizations define visual pollution as every interference forms that could generate a visual message or its structure that blocks the sight, distorts or blurs the vision of other messages or any other environment’s component.