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Mass-produced

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There is no generic human to be found. Everyone is specific. Everyone is distinct, maybe not in their preferences but definitely in the criteria that emerge from their physical and psychological being.

Design as a practice focuses on profiles of individuals that they cater to through mass-produced objects, in this case mass-produced chairs. But individuals cannot be neatly segregated into profiles and categories. The extent of how much they know themselves and who they really are, are two different things. People generally do not know who they are but when they sit on a chair, the entirety of their self is sitting on the chair and responding whether the chair is comfortable or not. Even the parts of their own self that they do not know, get to respond.

So even if they had complete self-knowledge, they could only ever be partially catered to by mass-produced design. In the state that we currently live in, mass-production has become an excuse for the poor execution of briefs.

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