Monday, Sept 11, 2023
For this class activity, as the propt stated I tried to create a useless product composed of 2 kitchen products. My first thought was an oven mitt with a knife side. I knew that incorporating a knife to some extent would help in making a product useless, but once I created the top left image the other ideas came about. However, I realized that they could all be used to some extent, and so I decided to alter my image to the bottom left, a square oven mitten with the sides made of steel knife. It would definitely be hard to bend and use an oven mitt and it would be hard to grab to use as a knife.
Creating something useless is difficult because we usually don’t think in that manner. We might think a product that has already been created is useless for us and our needs, but when we try to create something, our ideas tend to focus on what we would want to exist versus what has been a waste of time to create.