Week 4
Modernity: the experience of space and time

Regarding to the readings by John Ruskin and William Morris on industrialisation of mass production and engagement with machine technologies in the making craft.

In my opinion, mass producing handy crafts with machines will degrade the value and the quality of the crafts itself. A craft being made fully with machines will each have less attention compare to hand made. Machines are program to make them in a large quantity but its quality will somehow be neglated because of how it was set.

Whereas, if a craft were to be hand made, the person would have its whole heart to make the craft as good as possible. When crafts are produce by human individually, they are not identical. This also brings more value to the craft itself as the artist could not make as much craft as a machine can make.

Although the quantity of hand made product are much lesser than machine made, but hand made crafts will always have a much higher value as for its quality.

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Although the writers have its point, but there is always room for imperfection. Hand made crafts which make its value higher can only be purchase and appreciate by the higher income communities, which also considered as the minorities. The lower income communities would have difficulties to even own a craft which is hand made. Thus because, their daily life's income are still unpredictable.

In conclusion, there are positive and negative points in the writers' point of view. The lower income communities would be looking forward that someday in their life, they would achive what the higher communities are doing, which is near to almost impossible with political, social and etc. issues happening around the world currently.