The Product Designer Who Only Has to Empathize Did His Job. Remember we are HUMANS

Pieter Lategan 

Live Performing Living Artist

I also cook

What is on the menu?

Meat Soup and a slice of bread - R20
Coffee - R5

Wine - Donations

23 June 2024
Sunday 11:00 - 16:00

Tomorrow will be a big day for me, I am starting to sell my art. I tried this and that, and I was fed up.

I have this stoep in front of my living and bedroom which I never used.  Now I am using it to exhibit my work. I will show more pictures about this stoep I have.

Most of the work that I now have is pencil sketches.  This is eight years of working, for hours.  I really enjoyed it because it kept me busy during lockdown in Covit.  So there are a lot of memories of people who died, worried about, and I was worried about this flu which I had.

These are photos that I took today while I was getting ready for tomorrow.

Torso (Mannequin) Photo: Pieter Lategan

Wood Canvas - Photo: Pieter Lategan

The Product Designer Who Only Has to Empathize Did His Job.

 

Enrique Iglesias - Addcited (2003)

Humans, what is empathy? The question is, do our friendly robots know and understand how to work with a person who has a problem?

 

You let him speak and you only empathize.  That is how you do your job. Listen and don't say a word you only give empathy. If he is the job worth, you can't solve the problem for him, then he spends hours wasting your time and money, then you could do that job yourself.  Don't give him a smoke break. Let him run but keep him under your eye. Let him do what he wants to do.  You say nothing don't tell him:  "That is wrong, you have to do that. I am not sure if you are the right guy."  No, you don't do that to a human being. 

You leave him and listen so that he can solve his own problem.  You should already teach him how to do that; that is why you only have to listen and empathize.  If he doesn't know how to solve it, I am afraid you did not do your job. - Pieter Lategan 2024