Anthropometry in architecture, interior design, and design

Webinar on Teams

• The resources available to architects and designers are 40 years old (1986).
• The population has grown, height and weight have changed. The standards have remained the same.
• The result? Discomfort, poor ergonomics, errors in architecture and interiors.
• What is the real data after 2010 – human height and weight???

What you will learn at the lecture

• Why commonly used standards and schemes are outdated and misleading
• How the height, weight, and proportions of people in Central Europe have changed
• how to work with percentiles (and why average is bad)
• How to convert anthropometric data into specific dimensions of chairs, tables, interiors, and architecture
• Where the standard vs. reality diverge (and who is responsible)

What you get as a bonus

• Access to the online recording (valid for 24 hours)
• Table with current dimensions of the population of the Czech Republic (Slovakia)
• certificate of completion

Description

The webinar focuses on real measurement data of the current population and its practical application in furniture, interior and architectural designs. It shows how the height, weight, and proportions of the population have changed over the past 40 years, while most of the standards used have remained unchanged.

Participants will gain current data of the adult population in the Czech Republic, an overview of anthropometry, and knowledge of working with percentiles. I will answer the question of how to work with this data when designing buildings, interiors and designs.

The webinar is intended for architects, designers, students and manufacturers who want to design responsibly – based on data, not outdated schemes with no relation to the human body.

Content

The lecture is based on current anthropometric research of the Czech and Slovak population and their direct application to practice.

• Objectives of anthropometry
• History of anthropometry until 1985 resp. 2001
• Measured data (height, weight, and more)
• Body and limb ratios
• deviations, rounding
• Percentiles
• Standards used in architecture and design
• Sources (standards, Neufert, Dlabal, Hájek, NIS, …)
• Comparison of available data after 2001 and possible development
• Human data for the needs of furniture, interior, architecture
• Discussion

• form: webinar, Microsoft Teams platform
• length: approx. 1.5 hours
• Price: 1,000 CZK (we are not VAT payers)
• Payment accepted via card or PayPal
• We will issue an invoice upon request
• Account number: 6806953369/0800
• IBAN CZ61 0800 0000 0068 0695 3369

Lecturer