The industrial designer and the manufacturing of furniture. A sustainability perspective
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Industrial design is a professional activity responsible of meeting needs through the means of objects; which in turn is a factor that transforms and preserves culture through materiality. This paper analyzes industrial design and its intervention on the furniture industry of the city of Aguascalientes. In order to identify the main problems faced by the designer when making a project, and how these problems interfere with sustainable design in the cultural and ecological dimension. The paper shows an analysis obtained through the case study method and the Object’s Life History which enables the researcher to identify the designer’s activities’ impact, stage by stage: from the project’s inception to its interaction with the user. Every stage of furniture allowed to measure the designer’s importance and his participation on the company, as well as the impact of their decisions on furniture’s life cycle.
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