Week 5: February 7, 2005

Topic: Human Variation and Adaptation and the Body

Guest Lecturer: Parrish Hanna, Director of Experience Planning, Arc World Wide

Key Questions:
How does the variability of the human body affect the creation of design artifacts and environments?
Current Euro-American society focuses on the visual sense, what could it mean to create/design from other senses?

Readings:

Pheasant, Stephen.   1986. Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics, and Design. Taylor and Francis: New York, New York.
Chapters 2 and 3: pp. 15-46

Malnar, J. & F. Vodvarka.   2004. Sensory Design. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN.
Chapters 3 and 7: pp. 41-58 and 129-152

Assignments Due:

Concept Journal iteration #2 (2 pages)

How would your concept change if 1) you designed based on a different sense modality (ex. haptic sense instead of visual) or 2) you focused on a different body type?