Home Heroes: Designing Tomorrow’s Home Appliances for Profilo

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2012-01-01

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Hasdoğan, Gülay Fatma
Pedgley, Owaın Francıs
Korkut, Fatma
Doğan, Çağla
Coşkun, Aykut
Okursoy, Mehmet Erçin

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In our current domestic lives, we rely on white goods and electrical appliances to help us achieve all kinds of tasks and objectives, e.g. providing us with clean clothes, keeping our perishable food cool and protected, maintaining a clean and healthy environment, assisting us in food preparation, and supplying us with fresh boiling water. Products that save us huge amounts of time, effort and inconvenience for daily tasks, delighting us in their function and aesthetics of interaction, may be called ‘home heroes’. Their impact is made obvious if we ask a question such as: What would our lives be like now, if these products did not exist? This project required students to define new home heroes for the coming decades, opening possible future product development routes for Profilo, the Turkish regional brand of BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH). How will life change compared with now? What new needs and desires will people have? The emphasis in the project was on conceptual design allied to technological plausibility. Students were not required to detail their product proposals for manufacture, but equally their proposals were not permitted to be in the realm of fantasy

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G. F. Hasdoğan, O. F. Pedgley, F. Korkut, Ç. Doğan, A. Coşkun, and M. E. Okursoy, Home Heroes: Designing Tomorrow’s Home Appliances for Profilo. 2012.