Melodievb/dart391b

What I keep in mind:

User oriented approach is not successful because research is not done seriously

This paper is based upon the idea of “reader-response” + empirical examples of user-modified designs

This technique allow more flexibility and opportunity for users to actualize designs and participate in decision process

Le Corbusier’s way of thinking about design = My task is to establish people in conditions of harmony… He sees experts as the only ones who can provide true order in cities, he builds on the base of his own point of view

———-My questions about it: Did Le Corbusier ever think about people in wheel chairs, mothers with strollers, etc.

———-Later on in the text, it says that user needs and wants continuously change. I am not sure to agree with this idea. I think that the mass production event created that need and will but it was not in the nature of ancient consumer. The texts we are assigned to read always have those little shocking sentences and ideas and it bothers me a lot, actually. Designers, even if in the text, they are talking about the benefits responsible design, don’t take enough blames on their back. They are the one who created the bad habits about consumerism and they too easily forgot to mention it, in my opinion.