Tutorial Friday 7th March 2008

First thing on blog
- What I got out of the lecture
- Research
- Drafts
Research- live, interviewing- find out what people want, librabry.
Narrative. Discussion of others ideas to form your own opinion.
Particia’s office hours Wed 2-3pm tutors room 2.24 email Patricia.Z.Bruner@xtra.co.nz
Send blog link by next Friday.

William Morris was part of a group called the pre-raff elites, a group of gothic inspired designers and architects. Architects of the red house.

Assigned reading- read all assigned readings so you can discuss when the person does their reading. Learn to skim read, read first paragraph and pick out key words from the rest. 10 point summary.

Industrial revolution. Change. Invention of the seam engine. 7 lamps of architecture- Johns Ruskin “beauty is the joy of the workman coming through in the piece” Labour is beauty. Morris feels he/we have a moral obligation to persue change. Aesthetics is the value of the work.
The user is not consulted about goods. Capitalists making things purely for profit. Exactly the same as the chineese industrial market today. We have to buy their stuff because that’s all that there is available. Unless you choose to do without.
Design (eg. Hat, walkin stick, furniture). Lost the are of marketing (market shopping).