| Abstract: | Once armed with only tooth and nail, humankind has displayed great ingenuity in creating weapons. One class of such artifacts, ‘improvised weapons’, once consisted of such items as a rock or bottle, but in an era of readily available manufactured weapons, now includes items created from spare parts in various environments. Using such a weapon as a case study, this article seeks to explore and analyze the derived artifact and understand it not as a piece of junk, but as a credible design product that provides insight into the designer and the motivations of artifact creation. |
