The calculus of design is a diagrammatic approach towards the relationship between design and insight. The thesis is that insights are not discovered, gained, explored, revealed, or mined, but are operatively de-signed. The de in design neglects the contingency of the space towards the sign. The - is the drawing of a distinction within the operation. Space collapses through the negativity of the sign; the command draws a distinction that neglects the space for the form's sake. The operation to de-sign is counterintuitively not the creation of signs, but their removal, the exclusion of possible sign propositions of space. De-sign is thus an act of exclusion; the possibilities of space are crossed into form.
