Reflection Part I

The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye 

A technique embraces a group of systems which causes some specific change in the characteristics of pieces of material- any material.
At first men did not use technique to alter the qualities of any given material, instead he used it in the state it was naturally formed in.
-He did not alter qualities such as hardness, strength, shape, or size
-Now we no longer leave it be because there has been men that have invented different techniques like; wasting, forming, casting, and constructing
-the technique used is based on the material's characteristics. For example process material is melting steel, and fibre out of glass.
-Wasting is another word for sawing away pieces to leave what you need.
-Construction is glueing parts together to make whole out of them and connection is using joints, rivets, weaving or welding to joint together.
-Forming is changing shape by bending, pressing, forging ex clay
Casting is pouting liquid into or over mould allowing to harden into a shape of the mould
Polishing is not its own technique rather a combo of formation and wasting.
- We still need more process techniques to make more shapes
-There is also a deficiency in corrosion techniques used to prevent unwanted changes of material.
-The sizes available influence what material is used not only the knowledge about them.

This knowledge is used to have when for this vessel project because we limited to one material. With the wood as the choice of material given to us it is determining what we make and how we make our vessel. We must consider its properties and characteristics. We will be cutting the wood block into pieces then constructing them back together with glue and also wasting technique because we will not be using the entire block of wood.