a practice of questions

This morning as I sit at my design desk with the crux of a design challenge my mind drifts to asking questions...
After all that's where everything starts for me its the crux of the thing, no matter what thing is!
Asking good questions.
Asking the right questions.
Asking bad questions ...so that you can find the good ones the ones that move you on nearer the outcome nearer better questions. All those questions they need space. I'm good at creating space for solving it is one of the things I do best. Create space for people to step into and do their work. At the moment I'm doing that for myself and a bunch of under five year olds who attend a local community childcare centre.
That is what I'm doing with these blank pieces of paper at my design desk thinking, pondering - knowing the questions to ask but letting myself have filtering time, deep thinking space.
The design challenge on my desk is for the Create Better Space project. It really encompasses my creative practice. Working in partnership, understanding the needs, identifying a budget, devising an idea and making space for collaboration, participative research, building trust, designing a response, making and producing an outcome. Mixing play, education, hands on experience, engagement, enquiry and people.
I know what I want to design I don't know how to bring it all into to reality yet. My questions continue and clarity percolates.
I'm thinking about cogs on walls that move things, windmills that move cogs, wheels within wheels, tubes for water, movement of water, mixing colours. A wall that even when it is raining will delight the eye and create curiosity. The balance between budget, moving parts, visual beauty and interaction is influx or flow...back to my desk!