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Friday, November 19, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Designer advocates humanized products
By DOUG LAMBORN
Consumer products should be simplified and humanized, Victor Papanek, chairman of the department of design at Kansas City Art Institute, said last night.
Papanek, who spoke to about 300 people in a Wesco Hall auditorium, has designed or taught design in at least 11 countries. He has worked with companies that provide Organization and Volvo, among others.
"I'm trying to show you that a philosophy of design can work," he said.
Modern industrial design wastes energy and resources and is restricted to people who are young, white, middle-class and not educated or American civilization. Pananek said.
HE ALSO SAID CURRENT industrial designers didn't work enough with experts from other fields, such as anthropology and architecture.
The interests of consumers aren't considered important enough by designers, Papanek said, nor are the interests of workers who make the products. He said his experience with Ivo taught him that customers, instead of the automobile they built.
Papanek gave 13 strategies that he said would make industrial design work for people. To illustrate his strategies, he built a house and compared it relating to good or bad industrial designs.
MAKING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN work for workers was one strategy. One example, he said, was that hardhats made in England came in only one size, as opposed to almost every other type of headwear. He showed an example of a redesigned, more comfortable
Papacken said another strategy was to design products that were useful for doors, but not for door locks.
Refining products is also important, he said, such as making vacuum cleaners that remove dust and germs.
"If something went wrong, they'd know how to fix it because they built it themself."
Making products simple enough so handicapped or elderly people can use them.
PAPANKER DESIGN should be made so that people could participate with it. To participate, people should be able to assemble the produce themselves. he said.
instead of knobs, be said, are easier to use for arthritic people, people with artificial limbs, people carrying packages and people with wet hands.
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vibrations. The school has a piano that some can play. Johnson said one boy liked to lay on the floor next to the piano to feel the vibrations.
Industrial design could even become political, Papnek said. For instance, his firm would have to enforce to publicize cabinets designed to safely store household chemicals from children. He said Denmark passed a law allowing furniture to rent dwelling without those cabinets.
Deaf children
The elementary students have regular art classes and many rooms have their works
Porter said the children were also extremely creative, and she praised their art.
"They love sounds," he said.
After graduating, at around age 19 or 20 the students are placed in jobs by the school.
After completing elementary school at about age 12, the students move across the street to the high school, where they all receive vocational training. At age 15 or 16, students choose to stay at the vocational college or college academic or college preparatory school.
"THE HANDICAPPED need to be brought closer to their community, and they need a deeper involvement within their families." she said.
"We don't have much trouble finding jobs for them," Johnson said. "We know whether they can do the job when they leave here. Their problem is not unemployment but underemployment. They usually don't get promoted to better things."
AT THE VOCATIONAL school they taught printing, cabinet making, drying and woodworking.
To help the parents communicate with
the school, the school has a program to
teach parents about their child.
Despite the programs at the Oatle school, Ediger said, she thinks that there is a need for programs for the deaf in public schools.
Most faculty members at the school have master's degrees in education, Johnson said. Twenty-nine faculty members are KU students and 20 of the staff at the school are deaf.
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The student teachers on the staff are required to themselves and other peers. Edgar
"Everyone is handicapped in one way or another," she said. "Some people can't speak clearly, some get so excited they can't communicate, and others are too tisy to communicate. If people could use this, they would have a better chance in the world."
PAPANEK EMPHASIZED designs that were appropriate for the culture they're to be used in, such as pedal-operated carts that needed no gas and could be easily assembled, for underdeveloped Latin American countries.
Papenek has studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, in addition to anthropology, design and engineering. His book on design, "Design for the Real World," has been translated into 23 languages, far more than any other design
Investigation into a possible violation of Student Senate budget procedure by two campus organizations was called for at that meeting. Finance and Auditing Committee meeting.
Committee to probe budget discrepancies
By BARRY MASSEY
local checking accounts of the organizations. He said that only two of the 13 organizations he had checked showed any discrepancies between what they had reported to the Senate and what their books indicated.
According to Bob Beisner, Senate treasurer, the two organizations, who will be notified of the investigation today, possibly violated Senate rules and regulations by not reporting all of available income when they submitted budget requests to the Senate treasurer early last year.
"THEY WERE LESS than forright in their budget request and subsequent report
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE two organizations weren't invited to attend the committee meeting. Beisner said, because the committee "wanted to find out whether the allegations were valid or whether they should be dismissed."
Beisner asked that the two organizations not be named until they had been notified of
The group, called the Schola Cantorum,
will be directed by Daniel Politoška,
associate professor of music history. The
singers belong to the Collegium Musicum,
a performing group at KU that concentrates
on classical music, medieval, Baroque and
Renaissance periods.
The finance committee decided to send a letter to the two organizations notifying them of the possible violation and asking them to review their policies. Randy McKernan, committee chairman
He said that the possible violation specifically involved a failure by the two organizations to report their past year's cash balancing. That information, he said, would have been used by the committee ordered by the organization's budget allocations.
High Mass will feature KU singers
A group of male singers will sing at noon Sunday in St. John's Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St., a Gregorian High Mass Hall. They will be conducting the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
MCKERNAN SAID THAT the meeting with the organizations would be the next step.
Gregorian Chant High Masses were written anonymously from about the ninth to the 17th centuries. The Mass Sunday, which will be sung in Latin, will celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. The spoken parts of the Mass will be in English.
Although further action by the committee would depend upon the results of the meeting with the organizations, McKernan said, the committee could take some definite action against the organizations if it was necessary.
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Singing the chants at the Mass will be Burt Allen, Lawrence graduate student; Clinton Groves, Topeka senior; Russell Groves, Lawrence senior; John Snyder, Lawrence senior; Phillip Schleier, Pittsburgh graduate student; Donovan Bowman, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student; and Leon Burke, St. Louis graduate student.
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"If we felt that we had been deceived, we could go so far as to freeze their funds," McKernan said, "but that seems highly unlikely now."
The possible violation was discovered, according to Beisner, through an audit *f*
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