 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
|
NEED Need is based on survival, identity, and goal formation. Possibly, true need would be led astray if social and moral obligations were removed. By designing a theoretical Lolita where a "division would fill orders for a 19-foot tall, lizard-covered woman equipped with twelve breasts and three heads and programmed to be aggressive", Victor received a positive response to this experiment.15(23) Apparently a teacher at Harvard wrote repetitively requesting a license to begin manufacturing. Sometimes a need to explain our lives is embedded in a culture, and other times it is called art: polar bear Eskimo carving from whale vertebra (24), twelve-light Bavarian chandelier from stag and steer horns (25). Victor addressed the semantic "signifier" of a product as a cause for need, in that if it was a gift from a loved one it would possess greater value.16 [Sometimes the product might be a signifier of the user as a “man of principle", as in the case of a still-functional, antique toaster that Victor found at a garage sale and intended to pass on to his daughter despite its exposed heater coils.(26)] Industrial designers today find ways to "cater to our needs", a more polite description of "object seduction". Is what we "want" really what we "need"? CONSEQUENCES Finally and most importantly, environmental assessment issues are essential in determining the value of a product |
|
 |