Kistan
(2018) In Diploma work IDEL01 20181Industrial Design
- Abstract
- The chest has been found amongst the few furnitures from a pre-historic time, and has played a very important role until about
hundred years ago. What if the chest could be brought back into a modern context?
My goal is to postpone product replacement by creating a certain degree of emotional attachment between the product and the
end-user. During this project I have focused on nostalgia and product personalisation as ways to achieve this.
I have been deeply inspired by the
characteristics of the chest during my initial research and explorations about historical chests. The findings I’ve made, has been
translated into a modern lifestyle, through
user tests.
The result is a chest that offers a hierarchy of storage with... (More) - The chest has been found amongst the few furnitures from a pre-historic time, and has played a very important role until about
hundred years ago. What if the chest could be brought back into a modern context?
My goal is to postpone product replacement by creating a certain degree of emotional attachment between the product and the
end-user. During this project I have focused on nostalgia and product personalisation as ways to achieve this.
I have been deeply inspired by the
characteristics of the chest during my initial research and explorations about historical chests. The findings I’ve made, has been
translated into a modern lifestyle, through
user tests.
The result is a chest that offers a hierarchy of storage with opportunities for adapting after need.
I hope this furniture would engage the user, and therefore be more likely to care for it, repairing it when possible and postponing
its replacement (Less)
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- author
- Berglund, Ellen
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IDEL01 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- publication/series
- Diploma work
- report number
- ISRN: LUT-DVIDE/ EX--17/50368-SE
- language
- English
- id
- 8956997
- date added to LUP
- 2018-08-27 15:29:07
- date last changed
- 2018-08-27 15:29:07
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abstract = {{The chest has been found amongst the few furnitures from a pre-historic time, and has played a very important role until about
hundred years ago. What if the chest could be brought back into a modern context?
My goal is to postpone product replacement by creating a certain degree of emotional attachment between the product and the
end-user. During this project I have focused on nostalgia and product personalisation as ways to achieve this.
I have been deeply inspired by the
characteristics of the chest during my initial research and explorations about historical chests. The findings I’ve made, has been
translated into a modern lifestyle, through
user tests.
The result is a chest that offers a hierarchy of storage with opportunities for adapting after need.
I hope this furniture would engage the user, and therefore be more likely to care for it, repairing it when possible and postponing
its replacement}},
author = {{Berglund, Ellen}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{Diploma work}},
title = {{Kistan}},
year = {{2018}},
}