It describes why these sciences are interpreted as human-oriented methods of object-based shaping and how they force us to rethink the human approach to the perception to familiar objects, and also describes their influence on the perception of surrounding objects by humans. There is a comparison of these shaping methods and an explanation why they should develop in parallel. The essence of these shaping methods explains how these methods relate to each other and how they interact at different levels. This article considers the shaping methods in architecture and design, namely emotional design and ergo design and Kansei engineering.

According to its inventors, SCM was not a finite object with a distinct form but was ultimately conceived of as a self-organizing, biomimetic metastructure (both tool and toy) for facilitating new types of human-environment communication a ‘medium’ that might, in Brodey’s words, ‘provide instantaneous feedback and thereby allow infolding with time, memory, energy, relation.’ These, in turn, would effect for the subject a virtuous topology of environmental discovery, new types of ecological and ‘inter-species’ relationships and, ultimately, a conscious evolution of humanity. Johnson, SCM was a suite of interdependent technologies-high and low, digital and analog-comprising a sponge-like material made from foam and/or Freon-filled plastic bladders, special types of valves, and various articulated cladding surfaces. This article explores the conception and development of Soft Control Material (SCM) (1968–1974) as a key case in the mutually inflected development of post-war design and the emergence of the concept of environment.

Earthchild by Warren M. Brodey