Quadrant 2015

Abstract

Quadrant in its inaugural year was a huge success. We had speakers from various streams of design who came, shared their

and experiences and deliberated on the discussion of design processes. The theme for the conference was design process

across the Quadrant of theory, practice, technology looked through colored lenses of culture.

Design lies in the continuum between theory and practice. Theory is the philosophical seed for the inception of new ideas and

practice is the execution of these ideas in built-form. Graphically, theory and practice generate a two dimensional quadrant within

which the design is incubated and executed (Figure 1). However, theory and practice are always guided by advances in technology.

The quadrant grows a third dimension of technology (Figure 2).