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Supervised ease
90
Jari
Jari’s is one of the three households that I contacted with the explicit requirement
that he would not have any kind of interest in design. This was true when
it came to his ideas about designed products that are specifically related to
interior decoration (P 98–99). The picture is different if the talk is about the
type of design related to dwelling (in the sense of running the home), work and
sports. Jari had been a professional athlete and talked about the state-of-art
equipment that he had owned. By profession, Jari is a building contractor who
works on huge construction sites; he demands the best quality and performance
from the tools and machines that he works with on the sites. At home, too,
Jari emphasised a product’s performance. Here, he is talking about their coffee
machine (P 100) and his professional equipment (P 101):
HP: But how about at home, do you have a special object or piece of
equipment that matters to you? Do you have, for example, a good coffee
machine?
J: Yes. Very good. To my mind, Moccamaster is the best coffee maker
there is.
HP: My mother agrees. I think I have got a Philips.
J: Place a Philips and a Moccamaster next to each other and time them.
See which makes the coffee faster and which keeps its temperature
more constant. But Moccamaster is much more expensive; it’s at least
100 euros for the cheapest [model].
HP: Is there another item that come to mind? I mean here [in the kitchen]
are quite a lot of items: telephones, scissors and all sorts of things.
J: (pause) Well, of course all the cooking utensils, they help with cooking.
It is quite (pause) It is (pause) You don’t really think of them as design,