Non Intentional Design (NID)

Design must embrace misunderstandings, mistakes and so-called misuse by people as a source of innovation and a means of improving cultural diversity. (from: First Declaration of the St. Moritz Summit)

Non Intentional Design (NID) is a term. It was invented for using an object for another design and yet this term is not entered everyday linguistic use. "NID refers to the day-to-day redefining of the defined."

NID does not want to design anything, no new design is being created here. It simply uses, converts, and generates something new or replaces something old as a result.

"The cultural diversity of the otherwise mainly globally organized and available world of products proves itself in usage only. I is high time to recognize the purely everyday, though exciting reinvention of all objects: because NID re-empowers people by returning to them their confidence and autonomous use of the object."

Bibliography: Non Intentional Design by Uta Brandes and Michael Erlhoff / daab in 2006
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