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Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas

Engineering Design Studio
Saturday, April 13, 2019, 9:00 am – 10:15 am


Prelude

  1. Tuesday: Visit of Qasr Al Hosn Fort and Weaving Workshop (We will meet at the Welcome Center at 8:20am, and leave sharp at 8:30am).
  2. Felix's examples for project names: ccuadraTisch, High 5, Eyelight Dot Me, F Light

Case Study Presentations

Peter Raacke, Papp Chair, 1967 SAT, 04-13-19 Van
Jane Atfield, RCP2, 1992 THU, 04-18-19 Susi
George Nelson, Mashmallow Sofa, 1952 SAT, 04-13-19 Mikolaj
Verner Panton, Stacking Chair, 1960 SAT, 04-13-19 Mikolaj
Eero Aarnio, Gyro Chair, 1968 SAT, 04-13-19 Saleh

Discussion topics/potential questions

  • Beside the omni present plastics, which are other todays challenges that relate to materials and overproduction that might be interesting to be used in future furniture developments? Let us say e.g. used car tires or used cloth. What else? What would be needed to integrate such into contemporary developments?
  • What are the supposed reasons of Dieter Rams to not like the Marshmallow Sofa?
  • Zeitgeist: Let us have a look at the Gyro Chair and 1968 graphic designs. What are the initial components in the design language of that time? Do you see some connections? Now, let us have a look at 2018 graphic designs, and predict some contemporary furniture…

Homework

  1. Project Report 3/5
  2. Upload a vector drawing of your Stool ICON to NYU classes. The name of the file should be the project name.
  3. Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design, On the Communicative Function of Design (p. 148–186), Design and its Context (p. 189–201)
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