*~Kay's Creativity of Art~*: Design in Our Lives

For our third trip we visit the MoMA museum once again. This time we went to see different kinds of art design galleries. In the Architecture and Design Galleries, I saw many type of unique designs. Unique designs in which I was surprise to be once used by us human being. In our visit to the MoMA I was told to find two piece of work that I thought had a high functionally and two with a low functionality. Below you’ll see the 4 pieces of functionality I’ve chosen.

For one of the high functionality I’ve chosen the objects from “Out of the Box: Italy 1960s-1980s.” I find the objects of “Out of the box” so unique in which we today could afford to use it. What makes it so ergonomic is in the way that you could have everything you need in just only a box. For example, the image below, you have your bed, your couch, your desk and your drawers where you could fit anything you want to put in. This is really helpful especially for those who live in a small studio. It doesn’t take up so much place and you have everything in 1. The second work I’ve chosen to be High functionality was the “Nature-City." “Nature-City” is a sketch on what a group of artist believes what an ideal neighborhood would look like. What makes it so ergonomic is the way everything runs on water instead of using power. The reason why I’ve chosen this to be High functionality is because of its environment. Where the urban life has health benefits and access to agriculture of country living. It’s a great way to live especially because of its nature.

For low functionality I chose “Forks”. The type of forks I saw were very different compared to the once we use today. It was weird in the way it was bent and shaped. I looking at the fork I find it very dangerous. I don’t even think you could even eat with that kind of fork because you could end up poking yourself. It looks so strange that I don’t think you could even pick up your food. I think these types of forks are mainly for design and not for using purposes. Compared to the forks we use today I believe that those forks can’t be used. Another work I found that is low functionality is the “Experimental Plywood Recliner.” Even though it’s designed beautifully I don’t think anyone would like to be seated on it. I myself wouldn’t sit on a wood chair. The fact that it’s hard I know it’ll hurt to be seated for a while on it. That’s why I believe it’s a low functionality.

In my opinion I believe I believe that functionality is determined depending on how the art/design fits our necessities of our daily basic life. An object can be low functional in a creative and uniqueness way and still assist our needs. That’s why I believe that an object doesn’t have to be highly functional to be good design. In conclusion these were the 4 works that I've chosen for high and low functionality. Some in which can be use as a decoration and others can a daily use of everyday life.