The hypercontextualisation of furniture.

The subject-object relationship in contemporary society.

Abstract

We can historically understand the development of furniture in a contextual manner. It is always linked to a physical environment and circumstantial technologies. These objects make sense because they are part of a set. Additionally, they allow the user – subject – to generate a relationship with their "existential space". This is a place where the modes of existence of the individual maintain a perceptual relationship with the environment and the objects that compose it.

          Currently, we live with the systematic acceptance of mass media as part of the human experience. This relationship transcends the limits of contextual space and breaks the "subject – object" relationship. Therefore, the formal approaches to contemporary furniture – object – rather than generating a dialogue between the environment and the user, seek to satisfy the needs of an aesthetic consumer. In this new context, the object appears friendly – ideal – posing no resistance – tension – in its environment, but rather seeks a global acceptance that results in an absolutely null degree of experience.

          This text aims to provide a practical approach to furniture—object—where it confronts contextuality with contemporary hypercontextuality. The following hypothesis is presented: In mass communication society, furniture has ceased to be a contextual expression to become a hyperindividual expression, transforming into a presentation of the user and the search for their acceptance in a global context.