MEMOrabilia: criteria for the domestic furniture experience design

Author(s)

Tatiana Sakurai

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2012-05-14

Examining board members

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos; Cibele Haddad Taralli; Monica Baptista Sampaio Tavares; Ricardo Triska

• Advisor: Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

Abstract

This thesis proposes to verify the methodological limits and possibilities of Experience Design in conceiving contemporary domestic furniture. The tools used to evaluate use-in-context gave rise to what we call \"sensitive issues\" that guided the development of design criteria based in a more human and community-oriented approach that promotes quality of life though design. The description of the selection process, its implementation and the difficulties encountered in using such tools and methods are included in this work, which also contains supplementary information such as images and descriptions of reference designs, definitions and microanalyses. The thesis deals with an interdisciplinary investigation of a broad but intricate context, requiring the consideration of local social issues, the minimization of environmental impact, and the transformation of domestic space as well as the family itself. The objects of day-to-day family life in questions are also understood as physical interfaces capable of enhancing the communication and transmission of information between generations. These repositories of memory link family photographs and oral histories, and remain on display long after their production and the events they record. MEMOrabili@ is the system that drives this design narrative, and it is presented at the end of this work. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 08/04089-8 - Design of domestic furniture for the experience
• Grantee: Tatiana Sakurai
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate