I am revisiting this article and kept this problem in mind. I figured out that the biggest problem are temporary, or better so called temporary files. You got several projects running at the same time and you put “temporary folders for temporary files”. It doesn’t matter if i look at my computer desktop or my real desk or my room. All that mess comes from temporary or not yet processed files. They build spontaneous structures in a space, where no structures should be. This space is not proposed to be structured, it should be blank space. This is a space, where the default should be an empty space. What can we do with this structures?

PS: That’s how life is. Sometimes coincidental. John Maeda also wrote this week about garbage. Read: Learning more thru less.