Merely to exist is not human nature. Yet how the environments we create shape who we become is not fully comprehended in design. We need deeper research in order to understand our aspirations for improvement. Only then can we design for enhanced states of the human condition, states that happen at the delicate intersection of the psychological, sociological, and physiological.

To provide meaningful design solutions that meet human needs, we must first define the experiences and qualities that constitute essential parameters. Design must embrace the human being as more than flesh and blood in order to reintegrate the abstract and the esoteric. Because design for interiors is the most inclusive of the design disciplines, and has the most fundamental connection to human nature, it is the one best suited to lead an exploration that will produce new criteria for design, working from the inside out. This is a particularly poignant role at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when humanity is racing toward the adoption of megastructures as a means of coping with the sustainable and social issues we face. Designed to house activities as broad ranging as farming, industry, education, housing, and entertainment, megastructures represent interiors that are no longer small-scale, individual environments; rather they are entire neighborhoods under one roof, which share fully integrated and balanced environments and thus constitute new ecosystems. To cope with such developments the interior must be seen from an unprecedented vantage, where science and art once again converge.