彭坚｜学术简介

创新创业型设计学者｜竹与生物质材料｜材料特殊性｜材料智能｜AI辅助设计｜材料体验｜适宜材料替代｜产业创新与成果转化

彭坚，湖南大学设计艺术学院工业设计专业副教授，博士生导师，创新创业型设计学者与产业实践者。我的研究以竹及其他生物质材料为主要对象，并将竹作为连接设计、材料、制造、文化、产业与人工智能的研究探针，重点关注材料特殊性如何被形成、被感知、被编码、被遮蔽，以及如何通过设计与人工智能实现更加适宜、可信和可持续的材料应用。

我的研究反对将材料简单还原为力学性能、成本指标或抽象的 “绿色” 标签，主张材料必须被置于具体的产品功能、制造条件、生命周期、产业链和社会文化语境中进行判断。围绕这一立场，我持续探索从 “材料替代” 转向 “材料适配”、从 “改造材料” 转向 “重构问题”、从 “材料数据” 转向 “材料智能” 的研究路径。

我的长期研究目标是建立以竹为关键探针的材料特殊性与材料智能研究体系。通过研究材料如何形成、如何被认识以及如何被正确使用，推动生物质材料从简单的 “替代性应用” 转向基于证据、情境和系统判断的 “适宜性应用”。

依托工业设计专业背景、湖南竹产业资源、企业制造场景、工程技术平台、学生创新团队及人工智能工具，我注重将真实产业问题转化为可研究、可实验、可设计和可转化的学术议题，推动论文、专利、产品原型、产业服务与创新创业项目之间的协同发展。

我的邮箱：jianpeng@hnu.edu.cn

主要研究方向

1. 材料形成与制造逻辑

研究天然材料的生物结构和原始形态如何影响其工业化路径，重点关注竹材、木材及其他生物质材料在分解、重组、成形和工程化过程中的差异。

代表性问题包括：

• 木材“从大到小”与竹材“从小到大”的材料形成逻辑；

• 不同生物质材料为何形成不同的制造路线；

• 天然材料形态、加工方式与产品设计之间的关系；

• 材料替换过程中出现的制造失配和性能失配；

• 工程竹材、重组竹材及新型竹基材料的设计与应用边界。

2. 材料体验与被遮蔽的材料知识

研究材料知识如何通过人的身体和感官被感知，关注视觉之外的嗅觉、声音、触觉、时间性与加工体验。

当前重点包括：

• 新鲜竹材及其蒸煮、炭化、干燥、热压等过程中的气味；

• 竹香与材料真实性、自然感、文化联想及地方生产记忆；

• 竹材声音、触感及环境变化形成的材料体验；

• “材料嗅觉作为被遮蔽的材料知识”等理论问题；

• 感官经验在材料认知、产品设计和品牌体验中的作用。

3. 适宜材料替代与材料问题重构

研究设计师、企业和政策制定者如何避免“为了使用某种材料而使用某种材料”，并建立基于功能、环境、制造、经济和系统条件的材料决策方法。

重点关注：

• 材料替代主义；

• 替代偏见；

• 适宜材料替代；

• 生物质材料的比较优势、应用边界与战略定位；

• 从“改材料”转向“改设计”的问题重构方法；

• 竹材防霉、耐久性和生命周期问题中的设计介入。

其核心观点是：

生物质材料的未来，不在于替代一切，而在于基于正确的理由，在正确的场景中替代正确的对象。

4. 材料智能与人工智能辅助设计

研究如何将分散在论文、实验、企业数据、工匠经验、制造案例和文化资料中的材料知识，转化为可检索、可解释、可审计和可调用的智能系统。

主要方向包括：

• 面向材料非专家的AI辅助设计与制造判断；

• 材料替换中的制造和性能失配识别；

• 竹及生物质材料知识图谱；

• 专家知识与判断逻辑的本地化蒸馏；

• 材料决策支持系统与可审计AI推理；

• 面向设计、制造和产业转化的材料智能。

5. 材料文化、文字编码与材料文明

研究材料知识如何进入语言、文字、器物和文化记忆，并通过数字人文方法重新识别材料与文明之间的关系。

主要议题包括：

• 汉字竹部及竹字头字符中的材料知识；

• 文字如何保存历史材料、器物、工艺与社会实践；

• 材料替代之后，文字中材料语义的持续存在；

• 材料语义延续与书写系统的“材料档案”属性；

• 以竹为探针理解材料、文化、文明与技术之间的长期关系。

本人研究具有以下鲜明特点：

• 设计与产业协同：研究问题来自真实企业、制造现场和产业转型需求，而非停留在抽象概念层面。

• 理论与原型并重：既关注材料、设计和文明层面的理论建构，也重视样机、产品、实验和技术验证。

• 跨学科整合：综合工业设计、材料制造、数字人文、文化研究、可持续发展和人工智能方法。

• 成果转化导向：推动论文、专利、产品、平台、标准、产业服务和创新创业项目形成连续成果链。

• 本地资源与国际议题结合：以湖南竹产业和中国生物质材料实践为研究基础，回答材料选择、制造转型、可持续发展和人工智能等国际性问题。

• 创新创业型育人：组织学生围绕真实问题开展跨专业研究、实验验证、产品开发和成果转化，培养能够连接学术、技术与产业的创新人才。

Jian Peng｜Academic Biography

Tags: Innovation‑and‑entrepreneurship‑oriented design scholar | Bamboo and bio‑based materials | Material Specificity | Material Intelligence | AI‑assisted Design | Material Experience | Appropriate Material Substitution | Industrial Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

I am Jian Peng, Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor of Industrial Design at the School of Design, Hunan University. As an innovation‑and‑entrepreneurship‑oriented design scholar and industrial practitioner, my research centres on bamboo and other bio‑based materials. I adopt bamboo as a critical probe to connect design, materials, manufacturing, culture, industry, and artificial intelligence. My work focuses on how material specificity is formed, experienced, culturally encoded and obscured, and how design and artificial intelligence can deliver more appropriate, credible and sustainable material applications.

I reject the oversimplified reduction of materials to mechanical properties, cost indicators or generic abstract “green” labels. I argue that materials must be evaluated within specific contexts of product functions, manufacturing conditions, life cycles, industrial chains and sociocultural settings. Guided by this standpoint, I keep exploring three research shifts: from material replacement toward appropriate material substitution, from modifying materials toward reframing problems, and from material data toward material intelligence.

My long‑term research goal is to build a research framework for Material Specificity and Material Intelligence, with bamboo serving as a key probe. By investigating how materials are formed, understood and properly deployed, I aim to drive bio‑based materials beyond simplistic “replacement‑oriented applications” toward context‑sensitive, evidence‑based “appropriate applications”.

Drawing on my industrial‑design background, close engagement with Hunan’s bamboo industry, enterprise‑based manufacturing settings, engineering platforms, student innovation teams and emerging AI tools, I translate real‑world industrial challenges into researchable, testable, design‑ready and transfer‑able academic topics. I promote synergistic development among academic publications, patents, experimental prototypes, industrial services and innovation‑and‑entrepreneurship projects.

My email：jianpeng@hnu.edu.cn

Research Areas

1. Material Formation and Manufacturing Logic

I investigate how biological structures and inherent natural forms of raw materials shape their industrial manufacturing pathways, with particular attention to differences in decomposition, reorganisation, shaping and engineering processes among bamboo, wood and other bio‑based materials.

Key topics include:

• the large-to-small processing logic of wood and      the small-to-large reconstruction logic of bamboo;

• divergent industrialisation pathways among bamboo,      wood, natural fibres, and agricultural residues;

• relationships among natural form, processing,      material formation, and product design;

• manufacturing and performance mismatches in      material substitution;

• the design and application boundaries of      engineered bamboo and reconstructed bio-based materials.

2. Material Experience and Hidden Material Knowledge

I study how human bodies and senses acquire material knowledge, paying attention to olfactory, auditory, tactile and temporal dimensions beyond visual‑dominated material perception.

Current topics include:

• the odours released by fresh bamboo during      steaming, carbonisation, drying, hot pressing, and other manufacturing      processes;

• relationships among bamboo smell, material      authenticity, naturalness, cultural associations, and local production      memories;

• the sound, touch, and temporality of bamboo as      dimensions of material experience;

• material olfaction as a form of hidden material      knowledge;

• the role of sensory experience in material      perception, product design, and brand experience.

3. Appropriate Material Substitution and Problem Reframing

I explore how designers, enterprises and policymakers can avoid material‑driven substitution for its own sake, and establish material‑decision frameworks grounded in functional, environmental, manufacturing, economic and systemic conditions.

Key concepts and topics include:

• Material Replacementism;

• Substitution Bias;

• Appropriate Material Substitution;

• comparative advantages and application boundaries      of bio-based materials;

• reframing material problems as design problems;

• design-led interventions in mould prevention,      durability, and life-cycle performance.

A central proposition of this research is:

The future of bio-based materials does not depend on replacing everything, but on replacing the right things for the right reasons.

4. Material Intelligence and AI-assisted Design

I explore how fragmented material knowledge scattered across publications, lab experiments, enterprise datasets, craft expertise, manufacturing cases and cultural archives can be transformed into searchable, interpretable, auditable and actionable intelligent systems.

Current directions include:

• AI-assisted design-for-manufacturing for material      non-experts;

• detection of manufacturing and performance      mismatches in material substitution;

• bamboo and bio-based material knowledge graphs;

• local distillation of expert knowledge and      judgement;

• auditable AI reasoning for material decision      support;

• Material Intelligence for design, manufacturing,      and industrial transformation.

5. Material Culture, Writing Systems, and Material Civilisation

I examine how material knowledge is embedded within language, writing systems, artefacts and cultural memory. Using digital‑humanities approaches, I re‑examine relationships between materials and human civilisation.

Key topics include:

• material knowledge encoded in Chinese characters      containing the bamboo radical;

• how writing systems preserve historical      relationships among materials, artefacts, crafts, and social practices;

• material-semantic persistence after the original      material has been replaced;

• writing systems as distributed archives of      historical material relations;

• bamboo as a civilizational probe for understanding      long-term relationships among materials, culture, technology, and society.

Distinctive Features of My Research

• Integration of design and industry: My research questions      originate from real‑world enterprises, manufacturing sites and industrial‑transformation      demands, rather than abstract conceptual speculation.

• Balanced theory and prototyping: I pursue theoretical      construction on materials, design and civilisation, alongside physical      prototypes, products, laboratory experiments and technical validation.

• Interdisciplinarity:      My work synthesises industrial design, material manufacturing, digital      humanities, cultural studies, sustainability research and artificial‑intelligence      methodologies.

• Knowledge‑transfer orientation: I build continuous outcome chains covering      publications, patents, physical products, technical platforms, standards,      industrial services and innovation‑and‑entrepreneurship initiatives.

• Local resources addressing global agendas: Rooted in      Hunan and China’s bamboo‑industry practice, my research responds to      international research questions of material selection, manufacturing      transition, sustainability and artificial intelligence.

• Innovation‑driven education: I organise students to conduct interdisciplinary      research, experimental validation, product development and knowledge      transfer based on real‑world challenges, cultivating innovative talents      bridging academia, technology and industry.