1. Exposed 2010 - Dan Formosa workshop registration
Welcome,
This is the registration for Dan Formosa workshop "Happiness"
Friday, April 9 at 1:30PM – 2:45PM.
Workshop description:
Put on your philosopher’s cap and bring along anything you learned on the streets. In this workshop we’ll investigate whether everything we are trying to accomplish through design can be boiled down to a single word: “happiness.”
If so, are we pre-wired as human beings to find happiness through inanimate objects? Or are there perhaps some common threads between the products and services we love or hate, and the qualities we look for in our relationships with people?
Are desirable products physically attractive, or even cute? Do we relate more closely to musical instruments or styles, such as a cello or a blues guitar, that sound a bit human? Why are we fascinated by life-like tactile objects like memory-foam pillows that feel a little too much like another person? Are we most attracted to products that touch us back?
In this exploratory workshop participants will work together closely. It wouldn’t be right to discuss happiness in isolation. While some of you will be making each other completely happy, get ready – ‘cause others will be learning how to make each other completely miserable.