{"id":8584,"date":"2015-03-02T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2015-02-26T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:41:54","slug":"the-aesthetics-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8584","title":{"rendered":"The aesthetics of joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years back C came across a website called The Aesthetics of Joy<\/a>. It is a ongoing project from a woman named Ingrid Fetell.<\/p>\n

This is the bio from her website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ingrid fetell<\/p>\n

My work explores the emotional relationships between people and things, particularly the basic objects we interact with every day. Many of these interactions are unthinking\u2014the way we sink into a chair or grasp a cup\u2014and my goal is simply to expose the emotionality inherent in the material action. On a deeper level, I\u2019m interested in the dialogue between objects and our long-term emotional well-being. Much has been said about the unhealthy culture of consumption in modern life, and I believe part of the solution lies in designing products that are emotionally satisfying in a more durable way<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just the name delights me. Life should be about joy and, as a visual person, the idea of joy having an aesthetic should have been a foregone conclusion, yet I never thought of it that way. I discovered her site about the same time that Sony Bravia released their commercial\/short film with 250,000 colourful balls bouncing down the streets and hills of San Francisco. It’s delightful if you’ve never seen it.<\/p>\n