Emotional Aesthetic:

The Application of Dematerialisation Designing Process in Furntiure Design

‘More with Less’= ‘2+2=5’= ‘Dematerialisation’

 

 

Modern industrial design of European origin and rooted in functionalism has always been inspired by the ideal of dematerialization design. The notion of dematerialisation emphasizes less material design intensity, “doing more with less.” This term generally refers to a reduction in materials intensity in situations where products or artefacts nonetheless remain essential. It is ultimately goals based on functional, economic, and ecological reasons. However, this dictum of functionalism is a controversial issue of the historical and contemporary notions of product design due to the “sameness form” in products, the “quality” of products, and consumers’ high demand beyond functional products. Contemporary design needs to provide people with many kinds of enjoyment in practice, in emotion and in mentality, and it attaches more and more importance to the added-value product.  This research explores dematerialization furniture design by engaging in three dialogues in terms of ‘more with less’, ‘2+2=5’ and ‘dematerialization’. It conceptualises dematerializational designing processes of neo function-functional, emotional, sensorial results with critical analysis. 

 

This designs was in the Design project in 2004-2005 at Curtin Universit of Technoloy in Perth. Research was experimented into the body’s interaction with functional, emotional, sensorial awareness.