Conflict and Convergence—Exploration into New Trends of Design
Globalization is accelerating with rapid development of society, economy, trade and science and technology, setting the scene for diversification of social development with conflicts and convergences of economy, ideology and culture in a brand new context of internationalization featuring resource and market sharing. People have started to pursue individuality and variation once their material needs are satisfied, with traditional beliefs and patterns deconstructed by emerging conflict, overlapping and fusion and reconstructed to produce new meanings and values. Bridging the cultural and spiritual scope with materials, design is assigned with the mission to improve the environment and enhance people’s livelihood; hence the pursuit of inner consistence amongst visible oppositions and conflicts has become the new trend in design: localization and internationalization are not two opposing poles but are mutually dependent and inclusive; mass production does not need to take place at the cost of individuality as diversity, artistic features and uniqueness integrated into industrial production will make industry userfriendlier; innovation does not indicate the negligence of history and the abandon of traditions; on the contrary, only by inheriting the fineness of history, proceeding from the reality and orienting development towards the future can design embrace its new vitality and dynamism.
conflict convergence
Qiang Liu Lin Chai
Department of Industrial Design, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Department of Visual Communication Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
国际会议
重庆
英文
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2011-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）