Uluslararası Mühendislik Araştırma ve Geliştirme Dergisi

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The idea of ‘decentralization’ is a product of post-modernism that emerged in the 20th century, despite the anthropocentrism of modernity that puts human in the center. Ergonomic design criterias have become ‘unusable’ in post-modern designs. In the study, ‘upper-modernity’ products-non-lieu designs, which are independent of human are discussed in terms of post-human and new space in public areas. The research discusses this relationship through a sample space. ‘In non-places, with the development of post-human understanding, ergonomic principles in the public sphere become dysfunctional’ is the hypothesis of the research. In the study, concepts of center-decentralization ideas are discussed with a dialectical approach within context of post-human design and ergonomics issues. The research is explanatory because it discusses the ergonomic features of a space with the sociological structure. The scope of the research is limited to visuals of space and furnitures in the movie ‘The Terminal’ which represents non-places. The research method is document-based content analysis, which is suitable for qualitative research. The study had two-stage methodology. In the first stage, the existing concepts were examined and the definitions of the subject were compared. In the second stage, the visuals of the interior space and furnitures in the movie were examined. As a result, it has been determined that architectural practices that center human scale within ergonomic principles in non-places, which are accepted as public spaces, are still limited but users who aim to 'build a place' have still a potential to transform the existing space.