Though sometimes I feel that Reas could have articulated his ideas just as clearly as he did without quoting another artist/influential figure, one line that he did say that I think sums up his talk is, “Artists maintain order in the face of nature”.
Though he doesn’t expand upon what he means by this idea, one of the words I would like to play emphasis on is “maintain”. Going through many examples of projects, Reas talks about the idea of combating chaos and resolving order; how there is a constant phenomenon of keeping order even if the what is seen seems to be pure chaos. The idea of keeping constant and maintaining a set structure seems to become the basis of design and computing.
I think his point is not only relevant in the case of design and computing, however, it applies to the wider context. One of the main ideas that I got from his talk is the idea that for something to work well, it must have order and a thus a good structure as a base. I felt that his talk was indirectly a life lesson as well.
Overall, I found it interesting how he described the projects that he had made and his explanations of how they linked to the “real world”.