A misura d’uomo: le radici antropometriche del Design/On a human scale: the "metric" roots of design.

The Survey is a discipline of knowledge that bases its methods on the integration of measurement and representation. Actually, this discipline does not exhaust the knowledge, but it has its roots in the concept of "measure", a concept that comes from the comparison with the parts of the human body. It becomes essential in the production of tools and artefacts, which requires the dimensional control of copies than the model of the project. The design, which expresses in the importance of ergonomics its reference to the Survey and its anthropometric nature, reminds us that the project must be on a human scale.