History of Industrial Design Lecture #5: Efficiency
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Matthew Bird takes you on a madcap romp through the early days of Scientific Management, Fordism, time studies, Taylorism, motion studies, culinary oddities, efficiency studies, ergonometrics and ergonomics. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride...
RISD Industrial Design Department, History of ID, Fall 2012
What a find! Thank you for this amazing narrative journey Matthew ❤️ Blown away and mighty inspired by such empowered men and women! Sharing it forward in the Indian Design Educators' group. Perfect ending with the Frankfurt Kitchen Song! What an awesome creative pedagogical approach to "sing praises". Bravo Robert!
Now I know who to blame for the absolute hellhole of efficiency our workplaces have become. That constant focus on productivity, efficiency and squeezing every last drop from a worker is what makes working in general such a soul crushing, PTSD inducing experience. At least for me.
not just you - this is a major story of 20th-c labor law. Taylor was a monster.
@@litsci1877 If the benefits from the cost savings of Taylor's efficiency gains had been shared with the workers, not just the profit-takers, Taylor might well be admired and thanked.
For a while, muscular Unions did make sure that benefits were shared to some extent. If the benefits are no longer shared, we should ask ourselves why. Who took those profits wholesale?
Finance (aka Money) has moved industrial processes to where they don't need to share the profits of increased productivity and dignified labour. Either non-union states, or otherwise overseas, out of reach of regulation.
And Big Finance (aka Big Money) makes sure that Government won't interfere.
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Thanks so much, Matthew, for making these available.
Thank you for posting this. I do hope you get 1-4 in the same format. Even though I have been working as an industrial designer for 15 years, I still like to go back over old studies to find new information.
These lectures are extraordinary.
Watching this about kitchens I can only think of my great-great aunt. She had 8 kids and worked in a pre-management study kitchen, along with the rest of the backbreaking chores like laundry. She died when she was 40 years old, from plain exhaustion.
"just because i am away this week does not mean you get a week without me." wow nice matthew, what an awesome opening!!!!!!! thumb up =.=d
This video is amazing, great work :)
As the engineer type, Ive found that when pitching a new idea to Management, pitch it as being " more cost effective" but never " being easier ". When pitching a new idea to the workers, pitch it as " being easier " but never " more cost effective "
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...... and? as an engineer type, where do your ethics take you?
Sorry to be so very pompous: do you serve profit or do you serve humanity?
Pompous, but serious question. Keynes thought that by now we should all be sharing the benefits of efficiency, and living a gently ample life on very few weekly hours very efficient work?
@@keeferhuges307 You don't understand.
If an idea is pitched to Management as " being easier " , it is usually summarily dismissed as unimportant and dies on the table since it does not directly affect them..
If you pitch an idea to Workers as being cost effective rather than easier, their reply is going to be " why should I do more work for the company ? " ( sub text, All I care about is getting to the next smoke break )
times have changed, viz. B. Dylan
Very interesting. It would be great to see all of the lectures!
I used your video as a source for a paper i wrote, very interesting information! Thank you for uploading and thank you for your time.
Matthew, thank you so so much...this is a gem.
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This was class #5 of my 12 week class. I had to get it here because I couldn't be in class. So 1 - 4 are live, in-class only right now. Maybe the rest will make their way here eventually....
A project for the COVID-19 “SAFER AT HOME” period, perhaps? It would be greatly appreciated (though I have no doubt it would be a substantial amount of work).
Thank you for sharing - especially the images of your grandparents. True adventurers!
Thanks for uploading your class videos. Greetings from Chile
46:30 ❤ OMG, what I dream to have: a drain board that drains into the sink. And look at those sinks with the backsplash included! No yucky space between the faucet and the wall.
Quite informative and Fascinating
Very inspirating lecture! Thank you!
Telling about ergonomic... any video for pens?
Fantastic
Love this video, do you have the other lecturers online someone where?? I would love to learn more and listen to more of your lectures.
Cheers Preston
Thanks! I have a few more things posted on my channel. All sort of badly produced and made for a variety of reasons/uses, but maybe some would have interesting parts.....
HistoryofID do you have a text you are using?
I use Carma Gorman's excellent Industrial Design Reader and Charlotte and Peter Fiell's Industrial Design A to Z. If you want WAY more info I use this to communicate through the semester: historyofid.tumblr.com/tagged/HOID/chrono
I'm really grateful for all of the videos you are posting! May I use some of this audio for a short little clip that I'm making?
Use at will! I post these out of desperation and idealism. I am glad you find it useful and my voice not too annoying...
"Desperation and idealism" is my middle name. Do you have an instagram I can tag you at? And also can I admit that I already made and posted it?
HA! Forgiveness is easier to find than permission. I can be found on Instagram: @Pasigraphy
you've been contacted on instagram! Thanks again!
Great Job!
where is part 1-4 ?
No one thought about left-handed folks.
Dear Man! Your Grandparents!
Good genes.
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Thank YOU very much 😁