One person's trash can be another person's treasure: redesigning used objects
Kao, Tseng Mu (2013)
Kao, Tseng Mu
Lapin yliopisto
2013
openAccess
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201304041072
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201304041072
Tiivistelmä
Recently, many original products have started to use eco-friendly materials. More and more designers are starting to care about making products that are friendly to the environment. Still on the market, however, are many products that have already been produced, and there are still many not-eco-friendly products in production today. In light of this situation, this thesis examines how designers can redesign old, discarded products and materials, and how semiotics can analyse the redesigning of products in a way that can explain what makes old products have new value and meaning. Furthermore, redesigning used products will let people know that even trash can be transformed into treasure through redesign, encouraging more people to reuse and recycle. Explaining this philosophy is the goal of the thesis.
People like unique products. Design – a unique, functional, attractive design – determines a product’s success; in addition to meeting the basic function of a product, a well-designed product can be a tool that helps us to communicate with other people, even to define our social groups. By analysing a product’s semiotic mode, we can understand structurally how redesigning constructs the product as a special unit. The idea of humanism in the philosophy of redesigning a product is an advantage compared to mass production; as a researcher, I hope there will be more and more consumers who pick up the hobby of redesigning products.
People like unique products. Design – a unique, functional, attractive design – determines a product’s success; in addition to meeting the basic function of a product, a well-designed product can be a tool that helps us to communicate with other people, even to define our social groups. By analysing a product’s semiotic mode, we can understand structurally how redesigning constructs the product as a special unit. The idea of humanism in the philosophy of redesigning a product is an advantage compared to mass production; as a researcher, I hope there will be more and more consumers who pick up the hobby of redesigning products.
Kokoelmat
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