ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how contemporary architects and artists play and that play can be transferred to other fields, or integrated into the changing nature of contemporary design and planning fields. Every community or neighborhood or district, even in the same portion of the same city, has unique or special cultural aspects and characteristics that are embedded in its spatial organization and structure. The firm relies on extensive research augmented by an interdisciplinary visual art media-mingling, including dance movements, in order to break down the disciplinary boundaries that permeate the design process. Play through object-learning is still critical to the design and planning process, providing a direct contact to objects that can assume multiple personalities and characteristics. Gary Chang of Edge Design Institute of Hong Kong stresses that tools have another life in addition to their manufacture even multiple personalities. David Gignac is an internationally recognized artist, ranging in work from exquisite pen-and-ink drawings to three-dimensional glass and metal sculptures.
