Should this website have a glossy finish before it is published? People accustomed to regular product promotion will say "yes, it irritates to look at unfinished and untidy stuff. There is no compagny who dares to risk that".
This website for sure, does not have a glossy finish and I doubt if it ever will have a finish at all. I like to take the risk because:
- The basic innovation, that we pursue, cannot give a final result for a long time to come. It is impossible to program its progress with any certainty.
- Anything left unfinished is an invitation to others to join development. What we publish, we publish as a contribution to Open Source interaction.
- Time is better invested in continuation of design instead of in an in-between stop.

Today I had a conversation on this subject with Dina Septiani (see picture), a student at the University InHolland in Diemen. She came over to our workshop for an interview about our website.
It struck me how much intellectual capacity is available in the environment of a school as this one, also remembering our interaction with its students Ayunda, Zhu, Farah and Lillian, half a year ago.
Over the years, interaction with students has always been very inspiring. They said it was inspiring for them, we felt the issues put forward by us, really mattered for them and could count on support in some way later on. Could it be that there are better ways for interaction between students and Demotech?
Last Saturday Rejo and I discussed with four students of the faculty of Industrial Design of the Delft Technical University how to shape an "inspiring environment on design for sustainability". At stake is the use of our workshop in Dieren. How to link our "inspiring environment" with the wish of students to have some reference from a radical design approach?
Some ideas were put forward, we will continue to work on them.

Today a big step forward was made with our website. As our website will soon contain more than five Megabyte of information, it will be a good thing to be able to find information by a search query. Marc van der Kamp has now created this potential. From now on it is possible to fill in a key-word in a search window and get the immediate result neatly sorted out by our database.
Marc is working on extending this search capacity. Soon it will be possible to sort information on categories of design, progress made so far, design targets and many other issues.