Empowering spaces: Customizable furniture solutions for Toronto's mobile communities
Gandhi, Simrat Singh (2025) Empowering spaces: Customizable furniture solutions for Toronto's mobile communities. [MRP]
Item Type: | MRP |
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Creators: | Gandhi, Simrat Singh |
Abstract: | The paper tries to investigate the influence of parametric design tools and digital fabrication to create customizable furniture solutions for Toronto’s mobile communities like International Students and Non-resident working class. The recent investigations done in the field of parametric design tools focuses on things like how it makes the designer creative or creating products that are never ideated alongside the end user and their precise needs. The problem is that modularity, multiple purposes and customizability is being brought into the market without bringing the end user to the designing table. The methods used in this paper are based on human centred design approaches of co-design with the end user to create prototypes which can then be analysed by user testing to gather feedback and create iterations to better computational or generative algorithms. This study found evidence that algorithms created for customization of furniture by involving the end user at every step of the stage creates solutions that have intuitive use cases which the intent for was never there. What emerged are customizations that can help produce preferences for the end user at hand to provide agency in their daily activities. The research provided the base of what kind of customizations can be desired by the end user and how a rigorous study can be conducted after this exploratory research to better optimize the algorithms and also the user interface of how the customizations can be done by the end user. |
Date: | 2025 |
Divisions: | Faculty of Design > Furniture Design Graduate Studies > Inclusive Design |
Date Deposited: | 05 May 2025 21:41 |
Last Modified: | 05 May 2025 21:41 |
URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4713 |
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