Industrial Design Role in Creating Daily use Products Inspired by Space Artifacts | ||||
| International Design Journal | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 17, January 2016, Page 51-61 PDF (682.39 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0036428 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Haitham Mohamed Galal Mohamed | ||||
| Lecturer, Department of industrial design, Faculty of applied arts – Helwan University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study aims to discover, clarify and take advantage of the relationship between space artifacts by the human to meet his needs, the industrial design and products that we use in our daily lives, and to develop a strategy of how to simplify and transfer space technology to the Earth. The study has adopted the matter of motivating the designer to identify the nature of the products used by astronauts in their environment and to inspire them to be applied on Earth. This is because the identification of the designer innovations to meet human needs in space significantly contributes in developing, improving and innovating new products that we use in our daily lives. In the mean time, analytical studies showed that an astronaut needs products which satisfy the basic requirements of life such as breathing, nutrition, waste disposal, bathing, sleep, contact with Earth, treatment and entertainment .... etc. If we carefully consider many of the products we use in our daily lives, we will realize that they are non-earth products; i.e. not originally designed for use on Earth, but have been designed to be used by astronauts for live in an environment of zero gravity where most of the traditional living ways are unavailable, Without such products, no astronaut can live in space. If these products satisfy the human needs in cruel environment, rather they will meet his needs on Earth but not with the same level of complexity, On Earth, we do not need the same level of complexity. Instead, we just use the same idea used in space for application to the products that we use in our daily lives on Earth. As for the results on the philosophical side, the study found a solution to the relationship between human and the product in conditions different from the conditions of life on Earth (such as weightlessness, space limitations, no night and day... etc.) and in particular to solve certain problems in usage between human and product (space-time) and inspire those products and take advantage of them in certain areas on Earth. Statement of the Problem: How to transfer space technology to Earth in order to use it in our daily lives and how to simplify and transfer this technology with applicable scientific steps? Determining if there is a relationship between space artifacts, the industrial designer and our daily life products. Objective of Study: Discovering, clarifying and taking advantage of the relationship between human space artifacts to meet his needs, industrial design and products which we use in our daily lives, and to develop a strategy for the transfer and simplification of space technology in preparation for application on Earth. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Industrial Design; Daily Life Products; Space Artifacts; Nanotechnology; Technology Transfer | ||||
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