Theater as a Furniture's Experimental Workshop

Resumen

This article uses theater as an experimental laboratory to indicate a new approach in the furniture design sector. The study relates the productive sector of the Minho region, in the North of Portugal, with the theatrical scope as a stage that produces attempts and validates hypotheses to develop a system of equipment with future application in the business sector. In this study, three case studies are analyzed for considering the scenic stage as an occasion for experimenting with design, thus contributing to the development of the history of furniture. With this article we hope to prove that the furniture designer can face the instability and complexity of the current reality, relating the project to the uniqueness of the theatrical space as a place of experimentation. This creative process can be an opportunity to design a self-sustainable territorial network system, validating design as a discipline with responsibility and social value.