Trajce and Sara compliment Alan’s dress sense – smooth, Italian, Mafioso, modelled after a Kappa soccer sports brand , while Sara reflects on her ‘rugby mum’ look for the day. Trajce teases Sara with her unlaced shoes in contemporary gangsta-fashion, primed for larceny. Alan teases Sara about her ‘cross-dressing’ until she clarifies that her look is androgynous, not cross-dressed!
“It’s a sport and leather vibe,” exclaims Trajce.
The crew debate the enduring role of a designer. Sara explains the framework that she uses when testing technologies in organisations. Alan adds to this by considering the legal implications of a design: “It won’t go away!” he says.
Trajce contemplates the need to evaluate a design journey, going beyond the pointy end of an event with direct causational pathways. Sara inspires, “Think of this like a lilypond upon which frogs may leap across blossoming lilies,” she says, while Trajce reimagines the idea of creation. “A designer is a parent of consequences,” he declares.
Sara reflects on the ethics of decommissioning a project, even if it means a service or an entire business. She considers her airport experience during the collapse of one of Australia’s smaller airlines. Alan extends this thought to the unresolved practicalities in many businesses and government agencies of how to dispose of electric batteries. “Deconditioning with dignity,” Trajce phrases. “A marvel of a good relationship and yoga pose transitions in perfection,” Sara reflects, “Can you enter, live in, and exist a pose with grace?”