Date of Award
Spring 6-1-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Furniture
First Advisor
Patricia Johnson
Second Advisor
Damian White
Third Advisor
John Dunnigan
Abstract
We’ve come to live our lives on a quest for what we deem as efficiency, but has our view on the matter been focused on the wrong measures? Taking Care investigates efficiency utilizing a variety of different comparative measures through the creation of 8 chairs. When our emphasis on certain variables is shifted, is mass production the most efficient means of making? What about one-off production utilizing local materials? Does industry’s approach to ergonomics focus on efficiencies benefitting the employer while sacrificing those of the employee? Working from a Wendell Berry quote contrasting care to efficiency as a point of departure, this thesis seeks to question our obsession with efficiency, and further asks the question, is what we have come to know as efficiency, efficient in the first place?
Recommended Citation
Dixon, John, "Taking care" (2021). Masters Theses. 688.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/688
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View exhibition online: John Dixon, TAKING CARE