Graduate Courses

Lifestyle Research and Design for Regional Development

: 发布于 2008年10月22日 00:00 星期三 00:00

Course title(Chinese)

生活文化研究与地域振兴设计

Course title(English)

Lifestyle Research and Design for Regional Development

Credit（s）

Hours

Prerequisites

Basic design courses for bachelor degree

Purpose

This course is open to postgraduate students who have taken basic courses such as Industrial Design and Visual Communication Design. It covers two parts:basic research and practice. Firstly，design is closely related to human life. The important prerequisite of design is a comprehensive study for traditional lifestyle: such as traditional design philosophy, design concept, traditional social structure, cultural system and so on. Secondly, this course introduces the theory and practice of lifestyle design research，which is aimed to cultivate students’ ability of generating appropriate design proposals to promote regional revitalization and improve human life based on in-depth research of various traditional or contemporary lifestyles and regional resources. Life is designed to serve a specific area or people of a certain lifestyle; The design proposals could be product design, service design, visual communication design, architectural design and landscape design.This course, which includes lecturing, discussions, field surveys as well as design research and practice, will go a long way towards getting students well prepared for future design practice and research.

About this course

Topics	Contents	Hours
Introduction to related theories	General introduction of the course:"Community", "Grate Tradition and Small Tradition", "Various uses of one thing", "One Phase, One Session", "Grand Design", "Cross-cultural Comparison", "Sustainable Community",etc；Cultural anthropology and other sociological research methods and principles, research contents and so on. Ways of teaching: lectures	8
Design research and practice based on in-depth studies of traditional lifestyle	Traditional lifestyle is related to traditional object design, regional resources, customs, architectural culture, food culture, ways of thinking and cultural systems . Such topics are introduced with ,for instance ,green design in traditional life culture (Resource recycling, resource reuse, resource sharing, the idea of less things, the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, etc.) Ways of teaching: lectures, literature review & field survey, discussions concerning design research and practice	10
Design research and practice based on in-depth studies of contemporary lifestyle	Contemporary clothing, food, domestic furnishings, traffic and consumption culture. Such topics are introduced with public facility and service design, furnishings design, cutlery design, design for specific consumers, etc. Ways of teaching: lectures, literature review & field survey, discussions concerning design research and practice	10
Cross cultural comparison and design practice	Comparison study of the object design of China and other cultures. The lifestyle behind objects will be emphasized. Such topics are introduced, such as comparison study of tea set, lacquer，table wares in different cultures. Ways of teaching: lectures, literature review, discussions concerning design research and practice	10
Theories and practices about Regional Development	Regional Development is aimed to improve the life of community residents through various design approaches（products design，services design，industrial model design，etc.） based on in-depth research on regional resources and lifestyle. Ways of teaching: lectures, literature review, discussions concerning design research and practice	10

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