Pablo 500 words

People and objects. A special and sometimes mysterious relationship.

People has a designed life, from the moment you wake up, everything you see have been designed in some way. We use these products, we need them; but the reality is that we don’t really know anything about them.

There is a documentary called OBJECTIFIED which shows a different point of view of the relationship between people and objects. It also explains how and why these things are made. But for me, the strongest point is that the storytellers are the designer. In fact, you can feel what they are talking about.

These are some of the questions I have sometimes, or questions we should know about. I think we have a horrible education as consumers. In a way, we accept everything as normal, because we don’t know anything about the products we are buying.

– Where came they from?

– Which material are they made from? (Are they toxic?)

– Why they look like that? (Is it the best possible result)

– (If I don’t know how to use a product) Is it my fault, or is the product not really well designed?

– Are they useful or just a luxury item? (Do we really need it?)

– Why we have to buy the same stuff again and again? (Is it normal? Can they produce something better/long-lived?

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These are two examples/ links of this documentary:

–Trailer

http://vimeo.com/2973112

–Jonathan Ives /MacBook Air

http://vimeo.com/7324647

Another point in which I’m really interested is the relationship between person and object as something really human or emotional. How an object can become essential for somebody, like a part of the owner.

I found these books really helpful for this part of my research:

–Boradkar, P. (2010) Designing things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects.

–Norman, D.A. (2005) Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things.

In some cases the relationship is really strong. Imagine an amazing car, and somebody driving it. The person who is inside is using it having a new appearance, exactly like an Avatar. In fact people can have an appreciation of this person just looking at his/her car, clothes, house, etc.

The way I’m looking at this theme make a close relation between people, objects and time, because objects and its evolution can define time. In fact, it’s known that people over 50 years tend to define their life’s based on objects they had or have.

The reason I chose this project is because, I feel I don’t have a deep knowledge in this are but at the same time I’m so implicated, I’m surrounded by this every second of my life.

At the beginning I was wasting time trying to “fight” with technology, just by looking at the past, forgetting the good things technology can do for us. So now, my new point of view is trying to use it, looking at the future and the possibilities new thing and evolution bring to us.