1) Read the following article “Designer Tom Dixon Unveils His ‘Secret’ Project With Ikea and write a reflection on how it connects with the themes of our class. How does it relate to your work this semester? Do you aspire towards similar practices in your final project? Does it change how you think about mass produced designs?
The article introduces the designer Nixon, how his design career develops until now, his idea of making lang-lasting design and his workshop at Parsons in the collaboration with Ikea. His job at the Parsons workshop is making a new collection of the actually strong Ikea furniture which is often seen as disposable, and emphasizing on showing its uniqueness, longevity and functionality. The sofa/bed has a solid base that is hard to be destroyed. And they created a series of accessories that can bring the sofa different functions, like turning it into a nursing station or a tool that can save your life in a flood. The high quality of the product makes the design long lasting, and there are multiple functions which are made possible by different accessories. The design is long lasting and multifunctional, and sometimes can even enable people’s resiliency to natural disaster. So people will use it more often and longer.
Related to my own final project, I think the similarity is both of the projects are designed with the purpose of long lasting.
It did not change much of my idea about mass produced design, but I realized the contradiction between the “mass production” and “long lasting design”. If you have many long lasting design objects, why do you need more products?
2) Upload a link to your LP that shares a draft of your systems map and your resiliency/repair story (see Final Project brief for full description of each). Also, what is the working title/name for your project? Label this post “System Maps and Repair/Resiliency draft.”
Working Title: Resiliency Reminder
Resiliency Story:
SystemMap
（3) Is there anything else you would like feedback on from me, over the break? What questions, if any, do you have at this point about final projects and presentations?
I have no questions for now, would def shoot you an email for help if I have one. : D
