Metadesign as a strategy for the evolution of outdoor metal furniture

Outdoor metal furniture has permanently been an interesting topic in facility planning and design. Metadesign means the active participation of end users in the furniture development process, by providing information about their requirements, drawing on their experience with furniture and its problems. This research contributes an understanding of the desirable properties of a successful metadesign system, in relation to the evolution of outdoor metal furniture through three aspects:
First: Fundamental constituents of metadesign for outdoor metal furniture
A fundamental objective of metadesign is to create socio-technical environments that empower users to engage actively in the continuous development of products. Metadesign is a design paradigm that includes end users as active members of the design team.
Second: Applying metadesign to outdoor metal furniture
(Human–computer interaction) HCI experts, software designers, and users acting as developers, each through his or her (software shaping workshop) SSW, can access, test, and modify the furniture product. They can also exchange the results of these activities to converge to a common design for outdoor metal furniture evolution.
Third: Parametric design strategies for outdoor metal furniture
Parametric design explores the connection between advanced computational design techniques, and the engagement of reality in the production of outdoor metal furniture. Exploring contemporary modes of digital design to production contributes to the setting up of a flexible design strategy responding, to the needs of customers nowadays. The goal is to rethink the relationship between design and environment, and engage them in a dialog, through the production of outdoor metal furniture.