Throughout the process of developing this thesis, there was a gradient of moments from success to failure. The development of the system for design carried the weight of this project, though it was not what determined the success. Through the exploration of strategies, the intentions behind the thesis, and the statements wanting to be expressed, were strengthened and clarified. This thesis set out to design beautiful objects to capture people’s attention through daily habits, unpack what it means to have power in environments that power is stripped away from users while also teasing them that they have it, and to provoke a conversation and curiosity around why things are designed the way they are, showing that it does not have to be that way.
As a designer, this thesis challenged me to let go of control. The best designs are not always the most detailed or the most specific. In architecture school and in practice, it is easy to get caught in the binary of functional problems responded to with design solutions. The intention of this thesis is not to devalue the solutions architectural design can bring to real-world problems. Rather, it is to incite, motivate, and spark a whimsical curiosity to want to approach design to beautify. There does not have to be an explicit problem for architectural design to provide a better way. Sometimes the simplest things are the most beautiful, and the world can never have too much beauty.