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March 10, 2004
Min Jung Hong, Jessica Findley, and Margot Jacobs Present Recent Works
Min Jung Hong, Jessica Findley, and Margot Jacobs discuss their recent project works.
Min Jung Hong
Starting from the idea that a user's emotional attachment-affection, fellowship, and friendship-to his/her everyday objects could give an alternative answer to the problem of design sustainability, my work "Emotionally Sustainable Design" explores on two big questions: 'Why do we feel more love for certain objects?' 'How can a designer use this knowledge to implement design sustainability?'
I have worked with the subject as the final thesis project here at HDK for last 1 1/2 years starting from theoretical reviews, moving to discussions and workshops and ending up with an exhibition.
It has been a journey to find different meanings of design objects within our everyday lives and I found out different meanings and values of the objects come out from different stories we make together with them. If an object contains many affectional memories, much of the user's special history, it gains special value within his/her life, so the object outlast any trendy, brand-new products coming out everyday competitively, many of cases, unnecessarily. In this way, my work has less point on producing any more new physical products. Instead, I aim at producing more stories and meanings of objects and supporting the users to make their own stories around their objects.
Jessica Findley and Margot Jacobs
The artists discuss their recent works including FRONT, BREATHE, and the aeolian ride!
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