ADVENTUROUS ROADS OF A DESIGNER:
UPSIDE-DOWN? INSIDE-UP?

Design is a kind of adventure, which includes sense of ambiguity itself. It creates excitement; it realizes dreams, it represents the self, the identity and design ideas; it has responsibility for the architect, the user and the community; it fills the gap of new uses, and it can support technological developments. After all, it can be acknowledged as an initiative process that may arrange certain set of rules depend on the design concept that is attempted to be achieved in the specific context.

Every designer has different course of action through their design subject to search for a satisfactory outcome, finding a way-out to respond the design problem in one way or another. What are the criteria for their overall design strategies? What kind of language do they use in various circumstances? What do they inspire from? Is there any common language or style in their final products? Or, every solution appears as a unique experience? What are the elements which replicate or symbolize their attitudes and why? How and where do they start? How do they feel; distress, excited? What do they want to achieve? Do they serve for real customers or created- virtual, non-existing ones? Who do they actually serve? Is there any user initiative or community concern in their design or not? How do they act in the realm of their life philosophy; locally, globally, ethnically, ethically, money-wise, individually? Do they care for equity, humanity and the Earth?

The aim of this paper to explore ‘design behaviour’ and ‘psychology of designers’ in the process of design within the profession of architecture depend on their priorities with the everyday occasions in the post-modern era. This experimental investigation can be a pilot task among the architects, around us in an everyday setting, who are trying to earn their life through their design and the ones who are responsible teaching them. This study can be extended with other design professions as well; industrial designers, graphic designers, sculptors, painters and so on; in order to understand the common and disperse behaviour of professionals in the design fields as a critical exploration of ourselves, to all designers. This study questions the Adventurous Roads of Designers; and inspecting them by Upside-Down, Inside-Up and raising other alternate ways of discussion on the design stage; and ultimately searching new grounds for the design discourse.