Sustainable Urban Facilities Design Based on Emotional Narratives

Abstract

Emotional narration can provide innovative ideas for sustainable urban facilities. The design of sustainable urban facilities starts from the concept of emotional design, focuses on improving the user’s experience, implements innovative design process, extends the product life cycle, utilizes new sustainable materials, combines emotional factors with product functions, and gets more citizens participate in the design process. The research result shows that the gradual emotional narration thinking change from a single dimension to multiple dimensions can promote the design innovation, upgrades service of urban public facilities, and enhances the connection between users and urban facilities. It can be seen that a series of sustainable urban facilities designed based on emotional narration can serve as effective carriers for communication between urban residents and the city. Sustainable urban facilities with humanistic care are dedicated to making urban residents realize they cannot only enjoy the urban facilities, but also participate in the creation of better social environment