A Conceptual Framework of Designer Responses in Designing Furniture Application from Upcycled Plastic Materials

Abstract

Understanding the design should be an emotion's role in various aspects of design, represent not only this research goal for research purpose but also for the successfulness of any design that has good philosophy. However, upcycling the solid waste plastic material to create another creative object could reduce the pollution issue and at the same time, support the awareness sustainability campaign.  An underlying objective of this research understudy is to investigate and develop furniture application design, which will respond from designer and their experience. This is to contribute guidelines for the future development of new alternative material for furniture applications.

Keywords: Application, Furniture design, Designer response, Upcycling.

eISSN: 2398-4287© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bsby e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI3.2532