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title> ADAPTED TRANSFORMATION, MOBILITY BETWEEN BODY AND PRODUCTS
author> Lieke Snellen

By the development of products the makers calculated the standard measures of the human body. Thinking about Corbusier and the golden cut.

Corbusier attempted to find standardization by looking at the main proportions and dimensions of the body. Art historians and psychologists can testify that the eye easily recognize and distinguishes the ratio 2:1 and finds it esthetically pleasing.
( www.envf.port.ac.uk/illustration/z/per/mo/lc02.html )


_____Me in the Corbusier ______________________________The Frenchman of Corbusier__________

To develop products they use measures and needs of the human. But by using these standard measures you can't reach everyone. There are a lot of humans who are different and they don't match the standards. However there are new kinds of development going on in this economy, product are becoming more individual. First there was this development where products were made for a group that was falling out of the standard measures like elder people or handicaped. But in the last couple of years the technology is getting to the point that the possibilities of individual products are getting alive. You could develop as an individual with personal products, like hair extension prostheses, and certain personal made clothes.

Examples of products for elderly people

Examples of products for handicaped

Other products

- So if products become more individual and the human body is adapting to these new
products wouldn’t it be possible that the human body will also develop in its biological way?


Ergonomics
This is an applied science that thinks about human labor, which try to find the correct and best proportion between human and machine, work. They study the physical relation between human, and products, machine with what the human works.

18 - 65 year
Measure (in mm) standard

Architecture (in cm)
Passing through wide 75 optimum
Body depth 45?
Depth in seat 60
Depth in kneeled 90

Guidelines working

My measurements with a closet

In a lecture "past the object" in De Unie in Rotterdam they discussed the relation between product the maker and the human body. See text in Dutch: Voorbij het object6, de geregelde gebruiker by Max Bruinsma.

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