Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need,
a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world.
Ellen Lupton curator of contemporary design Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Mesum, NY
Ergonomics is the study and applied science of the relationship between man and his/her environment. Ambiguously it is an encompassing term given to how one interacts with our surroundings and things taking into considerations factors such as physicality, psychology, functionality, aestheticism as well as how it effects and plays with our sense.
Ergonomics is crucial to any form of product / furniture/ interior engineering and design as it focuses on the basics of functionality vs the aesthetic. Designers over decades have focused on the concepts of successful design formed through ergonomics to transform the way we live our lives and utilise the products and things we surround ourselves with to transcend to new levels of functionality and aestheticism. Such a piece is the Evolution Door by Austrian artist Klemens Toggler.
By constructing the flip panel door out of a series of hidden pulleys and levers Toggler has not only redefined the way one interacts and experiences the door and the act of opening and closing it, but has also completely discarded the boring aesthetic of the mundane object of privacy into a revised mechanical contraption symbolising modernity and the revolution of functionality. With its slick and smooth appearance mirroring the fluidity of movement one is no longer confronted with the normality of the heavy structural door which has become the norm. Instead ones relationship with the inanimate object transcends into an exciting and revolutionary fetishised realm of pleasure derived through interaction, the unexpected and the psychology of functionality.
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