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Session 7: Human-Object Interaction 2 - Coggle Diagram
Session 7: Human-Object Interaction 2
Stuff by Miller
people make things, things make people
Memorabilia vs. souvenirs
Memorabilia
personal and meaning but wasn't designed for that
Souvenirs
something you can buy
impersonal
the object was made for it to be meaningful and for it to give you a good memory
people make things, things make people
The need for materials
Sebastian Delgado
1987
found gold and completely changed the surface
things make people
Easter Island
they chopped the wood and couldn't reproduce or fish so they were extinct
couldn't manage their resources
Durability
Planned Obsolence
making something for it to stop working
Light Bulb conspirancy
Phoebus Cartel meeting in Geneva
Fashion items
should we change them every month?
The politics of design
design is a process that ideally makes our world a little bit better
ethnography of design
Victor Papanek
Victor Papanek
important thinker of the 20th century
"all design has social, environmental and ecological consequences"
designers should be communicators and diplomats
Tin Can Radio
1962
for the army
deliver a radio signal to people everywhere
sustainable, cheap, easy, accesible...
he was criticised
he admitted it was ugly but he had no right to make aesthetic something that could affect millions of people
left the option of people to decorate it
Indonesia
paper, glad, shells, stone...
the politics of design
usability
Victor Papanek
Usability
product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction
Production ressources
Suez Canal
Artic Route
Panama Canal
