The process of ‘massification’ of customs, traditions, languages, materials and ways of production due to the phenomenon of globalisation has determined an inevitable depletion of the ‘value’ of things, both at the architectural and at the everyday things scale. The richness of an artefact, in fact, resides in its capacity of including experiences, stories, traditions and specific features, even local, in encouraging new experiences as well as in stimulating new uses. For this purpose, one of the most promising paths seems to be the involvement of multidisciplinary competences, starting from the design process, which is the main vocation of ergonomics. Consequently, teaching ergonomics inside the faculties of design appears necessary to favour the recovery of the ‘ethical value’ of design. If ergonomics were provided with sufficient didactic autonomy, it would let young designers understand its own strategic and proposal value in enabling the awareness and the critical conceptual development of ideas.

Global homologation versus inter-disciplinary approach: teaching ergonomics at a design faculty.

DI BUCCHIANICO, Giuseppe
;
CAMPLONE, Stefania
2012-01-01

Abstract

The process of ‘massification’ of customs, traditions, languages, materials and ways of production due to the phenomenon of globalisation has determined an inevitable depletion of the ‘value’ of things, both at the architectural and at the everyday things scale. The richness of an artefact, in fact, resides in its capacity of including experiences, stories, traditions and specific features, even local, in encouraging new experiences as well as in stimulating new uses. For this purpose, one of the most promising paths seems to be the involvement of multidisciplinary competences, starting from the design process, which is the main vocation of ergonomics. Consequently, teaching ergonomics inside the faculties of design appears necessary to favour the recovery of the ‘ethical value’ of design. If ergonomics were provided with sufficient didactic autonomy, it would let young designers understand its own strategic and proposal value in enabling the awareness and the critical conceptual development of ideas.
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