On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Lars Albinsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Intresting perspective on the form follows function thing. Is there a difference between discovered beauty in functional objects and things intentionally designed to be purely functional?
Functionalism as a basis for aesthetics is full of odd feedback loops and problems with the question of "For which function?" I can't find an online version of Jay Doblin's "Discrimination: The special skills required for seeing, and the curious structure of judgement" but the chart that is at its core is at:
http://plausibleutopias.blogspot.com/2011/11/clueless-consumers-and-their-lack-of.html
It's easy to see that everything in his "high discrimination" column at least started as "functional" form. Doblin seemed to assume that starting out as functional gives an object lifetime membership in the functionalist aesthetics club. A Ferrari is "pro-- high discrimination/high price--largely because of being designed specifically to go fast and handle well. Somehow it remains so even if it's used to deliver pizza in a neighborhood with low speed limits.
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