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Abstract

As a designer, I find myself daily being confronted with choices which eventually can be summarized as how we experience something. What’s the function, feeling, what colors should there be, shapes, materials, etc. Different parts will be combined to create an entirety. The only question is why we are affected so differently by the same entirety. In this project I have examined how the relationship between a space and a product affects our perception of a coherensy and what it is that makes us experience it so differently. I wanted to find a way to methodically explore the importance of the coherency for the experience of a product and a space in relation to each other, in order to produce a material that can form the basis for further work on the spatial context. I’ve looked into the psycological term central coherence and formed a scale that shows the human abilities to perceive a context in various psychological conditions. From this scale I’ve tried to concretize the process of making a spacial coherency by creating two different additional steps based on each extreme of the scale which helps you make sure that both functional and emotional needs are included in the process.