Explaining the Criteria of Designing Urban Furniture and Landscape, with a Cultural-social Design Approach

• Main Author: Marzieh Allahdadi
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Karabuk University 2017-09-01
• Series: Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi
• Subjects: Urban furniture, Cultural-social design, Design criteria and elements.
• Online Access: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/article/view/1034

Attention to the deep relationship between human personality and the place in which he lives causes the place to play a crucial role in cultural transformations and prevalence of human life style and formation of values, connections and human activities. Cities are not just a place of transit, but they are also environments that must have mutual communications with the inhabitants in order to realize the meaning of citizen, as there is a distinction between the status of citizenship and urbanization. Urban furniture is one of the elements of urban space that its quantity, beauty and durability play a major role in achieving a healthy and favorable city and satisfies the needs of citizens in terms of performance and beauty. Accordingly, the present study, using descriptive-analytical method and with data collection tools including library and documentary studies, examines the concept of product ecology and answers to the questions whether urban furniture can start or support social interaction or positively affect the roles of citizens? In this paper, the relationship between social-cultural design in urban furniture and the disturbances regarding uneven distribution of elements are identified, and finally the criteria of designing urban furniture and landscape are expressed with a social-design approach.