We Have No Vision is a place where former Iaac students share thoughts loosely related to what they are doing on a daily basis.

Times (not the magazine), economy, architects is the title of my newest text there. I wrote it in response to an article by Hemant Purohit. Hemant speaks of the disturbing situation in which many recent design graduates find themselves – the economical crisis significantly lowered down the number of design jobs. As far as I know (from speaking to friends), it happened everywhere apart from China, so that does tell you quite a lot on the looming “new world order”, perhaps. I do disagree with Hemant on one issue, however. I don’t think that architects, designers etc. should wait for better times to come and when they do, continue what they used to be doing previously. I would rather agree with Michael Weinstock’s point of view. He says the time of architects as “shape makers” may be gone and architects should rather be occupied with processes of formation in order to produce work relevant to XXI century problems (let’s not get into the design problem-design solution relation as a complex entity evolving over time). In my text, I argue, that this point is highly appealing, but it should not be made to architects only. Politicians and developers need to become aware of it – after all, they are the ones who decide both on the deadlines and on the design qualities. Some architects, then, will have to take on an uneasy job of communicating the ideas of generative formation of artifacts at any scale as a valid approach for development of sustainable societies in the future. The happy bloby era might be dead and gone.