ABSTRACT
Dynamic extemal conditions, economic migration, and high work mobility resulted in a fact, that both architecture and everyday use objects get more flexible and responsive to the challenges they are supposed to meet. The author, analysing concepts of flexibility in the development of space, divides them into two groups: - qualitative changes in the architectural space: reconfiguration, adaptation, and negotiation; - quantitative changes of urban space: expansion, inversion and intensification. How much 'Nill the changes in the way space is used influence the scope oftasks the ergonomics has to deal with? How much wider will this discipline of knowledge based on the relation between a human being and post-industrial living environment become? The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to the research apparatus of ergonomics ideas such as: reconfiguration, adaptation, negotiation, expansion, inversion, and intensification as important elements of human interaction with the environment.
