Now I know that my design will consist from multiple items that will serve as seats. I am thinking about different textiles and soft surfaces. Low seats. Maybe with possibilities for low tables. Can be assembled in a desired way according to activity and occasion. My design should speak furniture. Not seating pillows or carpets.
Done some more reading today. Article about design for happiness. What are the ingredients of that design.
Positive Design: An Introduction to Design for Subjective Well-Being
I am thinking about softness and coziness that you can assemble with cushions and textiles. Multiple items. Passel like. I dont know if I can call it a sofa. Maybe its a seat.
First I have to create visual identity of the new
nomads. What is their environment? Their activity? What kind of
objects surround them? The seating have to emphasize their identity.
They have to recognize themselves in the seating. This factor creates
more attachment.
From there I can think about three levels of
design (visceral, behavioral and reflective) and what I should
include in design of each level.
I was browsing and found some pictures of seats, sofas that I like. They inspire me with shapes, flexibility, the way that textile designed, how 2d becomes 3d and so on.
The new nomads are people who have no fixed home and move from place to place because of different working opportunities or to experience other places while working remotely.
This is how I define my users.
Here is very interesting website for those who live or want to live like that
Now I have to figure out what will be my inspiration. What will be the visual language in my project.
That will be my departure point. I need to create visual identity for these people. What will be the images of my inspiration board?
Meanwhile I can give examples of other nomadic aesthetic.
In this case the home full of colorful patterned textiles. Places for sitting are low and comfortable. There is a variety of different pillows that give the users freedom to arrange them as they want to. It is very different from so called modern nomadic furniture.
In my opinion this kind of furniture is for temporary traveling away from existing home. It is for travelers, not for nomads. But yet, it is easy to transport and store.
Should my design have a combination of both? We will see in the nearer future.
I
feel responsible to do more then designing from recicable materials
using sustainable methods. Only that will not prevent from people get
rid of their furniture quickly. Nowadays it is very easy to buy cheap
furniture and while moving out after half a year through it away.
There
are many foldable nomadic furniture which serve the function but they
give a feeling of temporary condition. Therefore I would like to base
my thesis on emotional design principals. I believe that emotional
attachment and design for happiness lies in the core of sustainable
product and the design of this sofa will be the result of this
statement.
“Product
experience is a multi-faceted phenomenon that involves manifestations
such as subjective feelings, behavioral reactions, expressive
reactions, and physiological reactions” Pieter
Desmet and Paul Hekkert
In
order to understand how to control emotional responses to a product
which in this case nomadic sofa, I will use Donald A. Normans theory
“Three levels of design”. This theory divides design and response
to visceral, behavioral and reflective.
On
the visceral level of design which is attended to the surface
features I will use aesthetic principals.
“Following
thinking in evolutionary psychology, it is argued that we
aesthetically prefer environmental patterns and features that are
beneficial for the development of the senses' functioning and our
survival in general” Paul Hekkert
I
believe that following these strategies will result an ultimate
design which means sustainable design, design for attachment and
happiness.
Donald A. Normans' video about “Three levels of design”
Here I can see for sure that it is going to be very simple. We can be anywhere we want! http://www.doublerobotics.com/
We don't have to BE where we work. We don't have to BE where we study or maybe even party...
How this kind of freedom experience can affect design of other items? How our sofas will look like in the world of freedom?
I
believe that in the nearer future we will move around even more
because many works will be done on line from distance and because
more professionals will work on freelance basis. I think that this flexibility in working places will create the new nomads.
I
imagine these people moving from town to town, from country to
country living in small apartments or even trailers. Very often they
will rent a totally empty apartments which are very anonymous.
I
think that a home feeling is necessary especially for nomadic
lifestyle and can be achieved through furniture that makes its way
with the users.
Why
sofa?
I
would like to focus on a sofa design since I think that this
particular furniture item is the most responsible for a home feeling
because of its comfort and multi functionality (sitting, laying,
sleeping, and social interaction)
During
my master project I would like to explore:
How
our sofas will look like if we are moving from place to place and
have a space limitations but still
want to have a home feeling?
How
our sofas will look like if we no longer watch TV or watch it rarely
but want to interact with each
other?
Can
our sofas look like decorative objects that transform to functional
furniture?
My
design will be based on emotional design principals. Every detail
will be designed to create certain emotions in the user.
