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Conversations in Contemporary Design | Designing Likeness: Dolls as Functional Objects
Lecture
Friday, May 2
Prov Wash, Room 310
What do we mean when we call something a “functional object”? In the history of design, a functional object is typically a utilitarian one—a soup spoon, a coffee maker, a racecar. But histories of design almost never include dolls. This talk proposes the doll as a uniquely functional object, designed with one primary function in mind: to be like us. And yet the ways in which it performs this... read more
