Design is always
present in our daily lives. We don’t notice but it’s there. There’s design in
the way we eat, the cloth we dress and even our homes. The Museum of Modern Art
showed us a lot of different types of designs. Some of the objects for in this
museum are made for the real world utility and others as ideas for the real world.
In this essay I will be describing some of the works I found to be high
functionality and low functionality.
One of the objects
that I found to be of low functionality is the Social Tele-presence. It is
defined to have visual and auditory senses operating live non- virtual location
remote. When a person wears it, it removes their eyes and ears from the body’s location
to operate somewhere else. I chose this one as a low function because you
cannot always have a machine talk for you. It takes away who a person really
is. For example it says that this robot can be used on a date for people who
are shy. It’s better to confront shyness than hide behind a machine and let it
do all the work. Even though the object is of low functionality, it has a good
design. It is very creative and of interesting use.
Another low
functional object I found was the Good Grips Jar Opener. I mean why continue
making different types of jar opener, when that invention is already made. In
my opinion is not such a good design because it doesn’t seem original. It doesn’t have any type of creativity
compared to other designs. I don’t think it was the best object to choose to
design and improve because the original one seems to work well for me.
I found The Garden in the Machine to be of
high functionality. It is amazing and should be invented for the future. The
fact that it has many rooms and high buildings. The way it is designed has no
comparison to the other objects. Not only this object is highly functional but
it also has good design. Any person would love to live in a place like that. It
should be created now that the population of humans is growing and we need more
space. This one was one of my favorite objects that I admire.
Another object I
found to be of high functionality is the Nature City. It’s really beautiful and
would be a very famous place to live in the future. It reminds me of the white
house in Washington D.C. It’s interesting how a neighborhood to live could be
made in the middle of a forest. That hasn’t been seen but it is a good idea.
This object doesn’t need to be made more ergonomic than what it already is. The
only thing I dislike is that we have to destroy the environment of other
animals to make a new one. As long as not a lot of these objects are made I
guess is not such a bad idea.
I really enjoyed
going to the Museum of Modern Art again. These works of art are all creative
and grab a viewer’s attention. I hope one day in the future some of them could
be in use so I can try it. I didn’t know how much ergonomics could influence
our lives, but now I know that it is even in our future. It’s everywhere and
decisions we make are always surrounded by these designs.
WORKac
‘’Nature City’’
Medium: wasn’t mentioned
2012
Studio Gang Architects
‘’The Garden Machine’’
Medium: unmentioned
2012
Smart Design
‘’Good Grips Jar Opener’’
Stainless steel and synthetic rubber
1989
James Auger
‘’Social Tele-presence’’
Acrylic plastic, aluminum, electronic media, Sony Glasstron
glasses
2012
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