DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE BODY AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT: BODILY PERSPECTIVES

Within the scope of this study, the relationship between the user body and the products produced by the industry will be examined through a body focus. The main motivation of the study is to analyze the body experience of industrial products, create data on this analysis, and obtain these data with written and visual records. With this goal, the design literature will be contributed with a body-oriented perspective in terms of product-user relations, user experience, and product design process. The study, which investigates the analysis of the physical dialogue between the products produced by the industry and the human body, aims to investigate the possibilities of object and body dialogue through object sets determined to be representative. While the first aspect of the research aimed at the study is the analysis of the dialogue of design products with the user body from a body-oriented perspective, the second aspect is the analysis of the body dialogue of industrial products that are in dialogue with the user body. The contributions of both aspects to the study indicate different values in terms of the field literature. While a body-focused analysis offers the opportunity to question, discuss, and reinterpret the field of the user body, analyzing the dialogue established by industrial products with the user body enables new design criteria to be sought and fictionalized in the new design products for the future. Analyzing the dialogue established between the user body and the industrial product with a body focus has the potential to enable the development and change of the dialogue in question, thus enabling the design style, usage practices, and product language of new-generation products. The fact that the body experience of the user is transferred from implicit data to clear and easy-to-read data in product design offers the designer the opportunity to capture and reconstruct the body experience of the object. This possibility is the potential of assigning new body experiences to objects belonging to different purposes and different usage practices through design. Capturing the body experience of the products as a dialogue and presenting it for discussion with data also opens the possibility of reconstructing this experience for interpretation. The study explores how designed objects work with the body, the space, time, and action practices they use in common with the body and reveals these practices with diagrams as a form of dialogue. Moreover, within these diagrams, this study aims to open body and object communication and interaction for discussion within the discipline of industrial design.