All Technology is assistive Technology response

Sara Hendren explores a lot of ideas about design, and the one that interested me was her sixth idea “Let the tools you make ask questions, not just solve problems.” I felt really connected as an artist, because my art usually makes people ask me “why.” I got that mostly for my poem book in GD2 but also some of my work in using images.

Sara Hendren points out the Gesture jewelry that was made by Jennifer Crupi. This drew me in because it gave a tactile form to a pose. It shows almost a futuristic way that humans will end up being when technology takes over the world. I like the fact that it get’s you to question why would anyone wear this – it’s abnormal to have forms doing the poses for you- but it draws back into the fact that we use technology for everything and pretty soon we all will end up being half human half computer until one day the human race will no long exist and computers will rule.

As I’m doing my senior work I keep wanting to push the “why is this happening” theme in my stories. Currently I retold sleeping beauty which unfortunately ended up being a happily ever after and sort of Disney like. My question for this story was why didn’t anyone age in 100 year and why is that young boy making out with someone who could be their great grandmother. So I flipped the story, everyone aged while they were sleeping and the prince got so freaked out that he left the kingdom where he was suppose to save the princess. For walking out on her the curse made it so he (the prince) aged 100 years when he got to his castle and died. Reading this article has given me some ideas on how to go on with my work.