ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AS A RESULT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON TODAY’S FURNITURE

Abstract

When the process of formation of furniture is examined, it is seen that it dates back to the
beginning of human history. With the development process of humanity, furniture has also
developed, it is no longer just a necessity and has become a big market, a socio-cultural
symbol. In the present century, the consumption of world reserves has increased with the
human population, and as a result, the response of the ecosystem has been confronted.
Realizing that they cannot fight with nature, human beings have started to search for new
production systems by cooperating with it. Understanding the importance of preserving
ecological balances has started the process of designing today's ecological furniture.
Ecological designs; while balancing the human-nature relationship by trying to protect the
environment as pure as possible, on the other hand, it has become a communication object by
providing the designer with different aesthetic opportunities.Design criteria have changed in
this direction and priority has been set as “environment” and “nature”. When the history of
furniture is considered, it is seen that the furniture made in the early ages has a more
advanced understanding than the present in terms of ecological features. Today, apart from
wood, there are technological materials that dissolve quickly in nature, do not give toxic gas
to nature while decomposing and their core structures are based on nature data, and these
materials are processed and shaped into ecological furniture.However, it should be a
prerequisite that the materials which undergo technological processes in the production stage
can be called “ecological » do not harm the nature in the processing stage. In this research,
ecological furniture types, new materials and production techniques will be examined in the
context of design and the formation and development processes of ecological furniture will
be examined