<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Something in the world tears away, jumps out, approaches… A world that approaches is a world that is alive and vivid. This applies not only to the existing natural world, but also to what humans create, which, in form the form of artifacts – from the hand-held ax to linguistic theory – also approaches design in terms of both object and challenge.