The lecture this week spoke about the roles the people can play within the overall designing of spaces. Specifically, it involved looking at the ways in which people live their life everyday, what needs these people generate within their life and how architecture can work to accommodate these needs.
While the lecture itself was fairly simple, with only a few words on each slide, the message became very poignant early on. It became obvious that the key to understanding any future setting or scene was dependent upon the characters that use it. Only then will the surrounding spaces be able to match and accommodate the activities taking place within them.
Ideas such as the factory home http://vimeo.com/45162091 use this idea of first analysing the daily routine of the users and then designing a space to match. Although it was previously argued that human beings themselves aren't going to change much in the future, it WAS argued that technology and other aspects would change quite dramatically. When researching this it became obvious that lots of jobs that are done today didn't even exist 20 years ago, which this video explains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Yt4wxSblc.
Therefore, we need to design spaces for activities which may not even exist at present time, but can be deduced through extrapolating what is happening today. This will be done within the tutorial activity this week.
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