The Object as Form and Value

The present essay aims to clarify the form and the value of the object in order to contribute particularly to its understanding as entity that can be created and altered in all categories of our everyday life. Its reading is expected to be an effective tool for anyone who wants to create the objects of our future by designing their forms and connoting their value, so that the human welfare gets an innovative configuration and a sense of remarkable approval. Each object constitutes a fundamental category of the human praxis and therefore is an issue that needs to be clarified and obvious to its recipients. In particular, any object's form and feasibility has been and continues to be an actual epistemological problem, whose solution lies on human praxis and the means by which we can understand it.

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Athanasios Kouzelis is professor at the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, teaching Industrial Design, Design theory and methods. During his academic work he has written also architecture and design books, manuscripts and articles (in Greek, English, Swedish and Danish).