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Model for comfort
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System design for vision
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Building blocks for sight |
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While the torso transfers position on the Steelcase Sensor upholstery
to adjust the pneumatic seat height (1), the rods strain
in their retinas (2,3) to adjust to the speaker behind the
titanium podium. The brilliant light streaming in from LaSalle Street
and Kinzie Avenue eclipses any definition in the composed figure.
Glittering skyscrapers highlighted in the azure atmosphere are momentarily
obscured as his preeminent silhouette paces the length of the pane
window. The user-centered space hinges intently on crisp syllables
that form words, that form sentences, that form strings of concepts.
Strings of past, present, and future notions are stitched into a
chronological tapestry: woven fibers of what humankind has achieved,
strands of what we still seek to attain, threads of what we might
eventually realize. The illuminated profile explains of our responsibility:
a social responsibility in making moral decisions that will affect
others, a prophetic responsibility in implementing ethical designs
that will influence nations. The towering buildings accent these
points in austere silence. Vinyl backs of chairs shift in disbelief.
The image of ruby ripe grapefruit tempting “pick me, pick me”
from the sap green lawn of an obnoxious neighbor flashes through
my occipital lobe.
Design ethics, the morals of design, plague my mind.
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