Filed under: Industrial Design, Social Design, Urban Design | Tags: design, Design Theory, Industrial Design, interaction, introduction, perception, strategy, thesis, urban furniture
This paper has been put together in order to point out the significance of urban furniture in the environment of a city—in this case, Aalborg, Denmark. It argues that treating urban furniture as a mere decoration of the city is short-sighted and that industrial designers of the field should view this design task as something that requires time for research and responsible design—not for the company that will eventually sell the furniture to a municipality, but for the municipality itself as a social whole. Continue reading
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The Introduction to the thesis will include the description of the overall approach to the project. It will define the point of view, that I want to combine Industrial Design with Semiotics, Value Creation and the branding approach of Graphic Design. I will have to make clear how much weight I will put on Urban Design, how much on the social background material I wish to gather, how much technical info on the actual design of the public furniture sample (if any)… Continue reading
Design For Thought 