Public Design for a Synergy between Japanese Kansei and Reason
Recently, the public has begun to recognize the limits of attaining affluence through material satisfaction that centers on things. A change is starting to occur as 21st century values move from things to a qualitative satisfaction with mankind, and mankinds involvement with circumstances and the heart. To deepen our understanding of mankind, and for the sake of the creation of the value and satisfaction that is connected with the quality of mankind, we must focus on the knowledge that derives from the kansei of mankind. Kansei will be an important keyword for cultivating the next generation. This article addresses the relationship between kansei and reason, and discusses the circumstances that fostered an intrinsic kansei as it came to have a specific interpretation in this nation located in the Far East. With the insight from this speculation, I will examine the current process of kansei value creation. Using a public-design case study that visualizes beautiful shapes from the relationship among mankind, things, circumstances, and place, I will present the role and significance of the design relationship of kansei and reason, and offer its methodology. Post-war Japan has left behind a life infused with the heart of society with an age that prioritized modern, rational technique, and I find it vital to visualize this heart (where heart is interpreted as mankind) as beautiful shapes. Our ancestors bequeathed us the harmony of kansei and rationality, cooperation, which comes from connections (communication), things and place (space) and circumstances (information), which indicate kansei (mankind); as well as time. We can learn from the creation of value, and so forth, among these relationships, that is, the study of Japans beautiful shapes. Surely kansei can provide a clue and becomes our source of learning. Design is the act of fusing the relationships of material elements (things), matter (circumstances), and environment (place) through the union of function and kansei from the perspective of peoples livelihoods, and visualizing this shape of the value of the relationship of things, circumstances, and place, and ultimately linking it to a business pursuit. We can define design as a kansei valuecreation process, which satisfies the adaptation and the convenience of a reassuring and safe life by seeing social circumstances from the viewpoint of the ordinary citizen, and changing and integrating the intensified and individualized, elemental technology resulting from the advance of science and technology into an appealing material and qualitative environment that moves and comforts us. Public design is one type of relationship design, a practical means of designing optimal, appealing relationships among mankind, things, circumstances and place. for kansei value creation. The town roads, parks, facilities and other public spaces that sustain our lives present the user with various appealing elements, making these agreeable places. In order to form agreeable places, it is necessary to study ways with which to systematize and characterize the various elements of a public space. Public designs can be designated as relationship designs with systemized functional arrangements and characterization designs that are kansei-agreeable. For systemization and characterization designs, it is important for one to understand the distinguishing characteristics of the historical/cultural background, and so forth, of the subject to be designed and determine the casting of leading and supporting roles when creating value for this subject. Public design is the process of visualization after determining the direction of the vector that connects the relationship among the following three values: the space value of things and place, the information value of circumstances, and time. In other words, the method of public design involves determining how to build a relationship that creates value for space, information, and time, upon deciding the characterization vector that acts as the lead and the systemization vector that acts in a supporting role.
Yoshitsugu MORITA Haruka SOGABE
Kyushu University, 4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku Fukuoka-city, Japan
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics(第四届国际机械工程与力学会议)
苏州
英文
939-943
2011-08-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）