Week 6 - Proposal for my object biography.
By Rose Sohee - 2월 14, 2019
The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) replaced – didn’t mention the disability. The inclusion of disability in
the SDGs is a huge deal.
Crutches are one of the symbols for
the disabled. Moreover, even people without disability often use crutches due
to short-term injury. Crutches have been developed for a long time.
Crutches
are called ‘Wood-Foot’ in Korean, and it makes sense because crutches were made
of wood when it first made. After the age of the industrial revolution and
World War I, crutches started to be mass-produced and materials were changed to
metal. Nowadays, most crutches are made of metal, plastic, and rubber.
Crutches
help injured people but injure the earth.
Crutches perform a highly important
role, replacement of the human body, but ironically people sometimes think
crutches bother them. For short-term usage, most people throw away crutches
after several weeks of recovery. Crutches help injured people but injure the
earth.
How
we perceive an object let the object exist.
Personally, I used arm-fit crutches
in Korea. In the US and Korea arm-fit crutches are being used for short-term
injury, and elbow crutches are being used for long-term injury. On the other
hand, in Europe mostly elbow crutches are being used for both. It is quite
interesting because the difference arises from people's perception, not from a
medical reason.
In this course, I will make a visual essay focus on the irony of
crutches and the perception of people. Visual information has the advantage of
easy and powerful delivery of information. I hope my objects also known as
crutches approach to the public easily. The visual essay will focus on history,
producing processes, and the future of crutches which was unknown to the
public. The purpose of the visual essay is to let the audience to see the
crutches more than a simple disposable body. To achieve this goal, more
research about producing process and disposal of crutches.
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