On the very first day I made a strong statement saying ‘ Why do we need to define design when it exists in our everyday lives as something quite the ordinary . ‘
I am amazed as day2 and 3 proceed with the amount of information I am learning about and how in the making of everything there are 10 million questions asked and answered and even at the end of which there might not be a product even near to perfection .
It might be ironic to compare it to the making of anything from a Lok Sabha bill to a petition in the courts which all have to pass through the rigorous treatment of the above mentioned point leaving us with a new set of disgruntled people and million new questions to redirect our process again .Thus proving my point that design and the process of coming to the end product is constant in our everyday lives, (nothing extra ordinary!!)
As design students it is constantly grilled into us that aesthetics and functionality of a product. Thus it is not new to us, yet we have in these 2 days approached it in a slightly varied fashion keeping in mind possible future changes big / small to make it the final ‘IT’.
It also draws to our attention the life of any product. A designer however big / small may have worked months on product , yet it survives the shelf for only 1 season( which is a couple of months) before the new look comes in . Thus proving that everything has an expiry date! The term ‘expiry date’ in this context fascinated me as I never realized that it was possible with more grounded and higher valued products as well as just a packet of Maggi !
Objects changing according to when we as humans and the society around us transforms, is a re definition of evolution in ways as it maps the change of objects from times before. Thus circling back to how design is part of everyday and thus does not need to be defined.
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