Contemplating the Necessity of Flawed Objects

"There's always something we don't know...

They ask us from the outside to collaborate because they need the input of somebody who has skills and experience but who doesn't know everything--and that's exactly where we can think more freely and probably come up with something that's totally ridiculous. [laughs]

But sometimes that's where the breakthrough lies.  The absolute expert knows what works and what doesn't too well already.  So we have to be professionally unprofessional...

We make mistakes, and sometimes we simply don't know, and we overestimate what we can do, or we underestimate the difficulties.  I think something very human happens there.  Imagine a world of perfect objects: It would be terrible.  We'd be bored, and it would be soulless...

It's these things you never think about, and they come up out of the blue, and suddenly they are the real dream projects."  

-- Industrial Designer 

Konstantin Grcic 

in his interview with 

David Coggins

Interview Magazine, May 2009