<Usman>Designing a system that enables other people to design. I think this is
an important role for an architect who wants to operate within an open system.
In other words, instead of designing something that people inhabit according to
the architect plans and desires ; designing a framework which is open enough to
enable other people to design within it. Constructing the system that both enables
and encourages other people to design is actually really difficult to achieve. First, 
because technically it is difficult, secondly because people generally don’t think
of themselves as designers. Convincing people that they can design is the sort of
one little step you have to get across, and then enabling people to critic their own
works and others peoples work is the next little step one has to achieve to design
design system.
<Cesar>But today, more then 90% of the architecture is made by non architects,
and in some respects it sounds to me like they already - or people have always
been doing open architecture? They exchange their plans, don’t care much about regulations...</Cesar>
<Usman>I think you are right actually, not only that : even in the built world in
general, in the capitalist framework, architects are not responsible for that much
of the built world, the domain of the architect is really quite small.</Usman>
<Cesar>So why should we care about this 10% we are supposed to be respon-
sible for? Maybe our ideal vision is very far from what people are demanding!</
Cesar>