A form study / concept for a column heater. The heater is intended for gallery spaces as a supplementary solution to basic climate control issues - that of which are crucial in preserving artworks. Understanding the distant way in which viewers would acknowledge and approach it - when placed in a space, I liked the idea that it may also behave as an artwork.
The heater can be stored vertically to take up minimal space.
As the precursor to my Senior Degree Project, this project served as a vehicle to raise questions on the use and perception of objects / products analogous to our experience of artworks. From a user and designer perspective, should objects / products be thought of as artworks? Should designers attempt to address human needs that are beyond utility? Could perceptions and sensibilities towards objects be shifted to a point where the man-made world is regarded as an exhibition space? Similarily, with the rapidly increasing documentation of the man-made world, does this then create a new standard and set of criteria for the practice of three-dimensional design?
As the precursor to my Senior Degree Project, this project served as a vehicle to raise questions on the use and perception of objects / products analogous to our experience of artworks. From a user and designer perspective, should objects / products be thought of as artworks? Should designers attempt to address human needs that are beyond utility? Could perceptions and sensibilities towards objects be shifted to a point where the man-made world is regarded as an exhibition space? Similarily, with the rapidly increasing documentation of the man-made world, does this then create a new standard and set of criteria for the practice of three-dimensional design?
This is an advanced concept model. Imagined in steel and polypropylene - actually made of machined plywood, and PLA.
