Abstract:
When the process of formation of furniture is examined, it is seen that it dates back to the beginning of human history. With the development process of humanity, furniture has also developed, it is no longer just a necessity and has become a big market, a socio-cultural symbol. In the present century, the consumption of world reserves has increased with the human population, and as a result, the response of the ecosystem has been confronted. Realizing that they cannot fight with nature, human beings have started to search for new production systems by cooperating with it. Understanding the importance of preserving ecological balances has started the process of designing today's ecological furniture. Ecological designs; while balancing the human-nature relationship by trying to protect the environment as pure as possible, on the other hand, it has become a communication object by providing the designer with different aesthetic opportunities.Design criteria have changed in this direction and priority has been set as “environment” and “nature”. When the history of furniture is considered, it is seen that the furniture made in the early ages has a more advanced understanding than the present in terms of ecological features. Today, apart from wood, there are technological materials that dissolve quickly in nature, do not give toxic gas to nature while decomposing and their core structures are based on nature data, and these materials are processed and shaped into ecological furniture.However, it should be a prerequisite that the materials which undergo technological processes in the production stage can be called “ecological » do not harm the nature in the processing stage. In this research, ecological furniture types, new materials and production techniques will be examined in the context of design and the formation and development processes of ecological furniture will be examined.