How do you determine the “correct” figure and ground? Is there such a thing? How much can study of culture/society be structured, and how much must be left to be free as it is? What is the purpose of project design, outside of our own personal curiosities, motives, and interests? Sometimes I find the more I attempt to impose any sort of structure, the more the evidence defies those structures. Even with an open system, I wonder to what extent it might run the risk of imposing on that which we are attempting to understand.
