Response 4

The intention of the conceptual design of my stool came from the idea of the stool being able to function and be useful based off of one detail piece; in my stool that detail piece is the little piece of cardboard that goes through the folds underneath the seat of my stool. In Richard Hill's " Purpose, Function, and Use" text, he defines function as an "execution of the object's purpose", purpose is defined as the "human intention in relation to the object", and finally attempts to define the use of an object as not continuously needing a human presence in order to be satisfying human use (Hill 199). The function of my stool was to be able to hold a person's weight when he or she sits on it. The usefulness of my stool comes from the detail that this stool is easily taken apart and reassembled with one little piece of cardboard. The usefulness of this stool also comes from this stool's structure only being composed of one piece of cardboard and held together with the little piece. The idea of entirety of the stool being very dependent on am additional little piece of cardboard was also to highlight the durability of the structure and material on its own.