Draft Manifesto

Design should transform the existing and recycling or wasting materials to improve its usability, and reducing the waste for building a relationship with nature.


Materials:
"We are still obliged to take most materials as we find them with all their natural properties and to improvise things out of what we find." (Pye, 1964). Therefore, design should have an acknowledge about proper and accurate of its material use.


Transformation:
Transformation is a process in which the reality in front of us changes its form, like a half-empty glass becomes a half-full glass. Reusing the used materials which is benefit for sustainability, transforming the meaning of previous material and creating the new new meaning combine with design. According to Ehrenfeld(2008), these can summarized with three critical domains:

· Our sense of ourselves as human beings: the human domain.
· Our sense of our place in the natural world: the natural domain.
· Our sense of doing the right thing: the ethical domain.


Usability:
The usability of reusing materials to achieve the responsibility to design, as well as to drive people's design idea of using material properly in order to improve the usability.


Conscious about nature:
Awakened consciousness can increase the likelihood that our designs will work the way we intend them to and also help us identify the causes of our problems (Ehrenfeld, 2008).




References:
Ehrenfeld, J. (2008). Sustainability by design: A subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Pye, D., 1914. (1964). The nature of design. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp.

Changing idea

After rethinking my idea of less is more, I decided to change my idea to nature design. And my manifesto is Design should transform the using of recycle to improve its usability, and reducing the waste and pollution.

Points:
1. Material
2. Usability
3. Transformation

Initial idea

The initial idea for manifesto: Design should be simple?

Minimalist: less is more theory.

Personally think "simple design" means original that people do not need to make potions on the objects, such as colors, the shape, and outlooking, even functionality. It gives a comfortable feeling for people like clean, not messy up and easy to understand.

Going to do craft

Three points:
1. Color
2. Materials
3. Shape

peer assessment

Peer review

topic and references

Topic: Globalisation + design

Thesis statement:

Design becomes global, on one hand globalization makes design lose its identity, but on the other hand globalisation gradually formed its own design culture. Therefore, I am going to explore how the globalisation makes its own design culture.

Three relevant sources:

1. Prown, J, D (1982). Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method. Published by: The university of Chicago Press on behalf of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. Vol. 17, No. 1(Spring, 1982)(pp. 1-19)

(web: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1180761?uid=3738776&uid=2&uid=4&sid=

21104067765001)

This journal article talks about the material culture, and the author start with six material categories based on function and comics, then it seems to be classifiable in three of them: Art, diversions, and applied arts. He challenges students of material life to respond by generating a paradigm able to bridge all artifacts as it interprets the physical contours, the sensual textures, of mentality manifest in tangible forms. The definition of the Art category is very much about the observer and interpreter of art objects, and very little about the aesthetics of creating. Art seems to be about announcements; diversions are more like conversations. Thus, the value of this journal for my essay will help me to explore more design culture on different perspective. 

2. Diehl J.C., & Christiaans H.H.C.M. (2006). Globalization and cross-cultural product design. The 9^th international Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Retrieved from: http://www.designsociety.org/publication/19040/globalization_and_cross-cultural_product_design

This article talks about there is an emerging interest in the impact of cultural dimensions on the experience and interaction between people and products. Globalization has led to a situation in which product design teams from one culture or context often have to develop a product which will be used in another cultural environment. Globalization also confronts companies to decide between ‘global’ or ‘local’ featured design of products. As a result cross-cultural product design has increased in value and interest within the research and education programs of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University. Therefore, I think this article will help me to analyze how the globalization affects the design culture so that it becomes its own culture.

3.  Niezen, R. (2008). A world Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization. Doi: 10.1002/9780470776582.

According to the abstract, I get the brief idea about what does this book talk about. Firstly, the author presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences. Secondly, interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture, draws from the work of recent major social theorists, and comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner. Finally, grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research. Thus, personally think it would give me more information about how the globalization influences the world design culture.

final images

This is the eight images I chose for my final present. I went to different shop which is belong to different country, like Japanese shop, India shop, and Chinese calligraphy shop, New Zealand shop, Thailand shop to capture how the people interact with different region stuff. Therefore, for my concept I wanna show how the culture connected people together, like in the shop there are different region people who will look at the objects that are totally different and new for them. This is the idea of design is global. And that is my theory then.

   

pictures

The second shoot

After talking to the tutor, I am getting clear about what I am trying to look at. Therefore, I decided to look at cultural stuff which has specific feature related to global design. Below are the imaged I took in the second shoot which I trying to look at the different shops which is kind has different country culture. 

the initial idea

My idea is about "design is global", therefore, I went to different places which is related to the world. For example, the India restaurant, Japanese sushi shop, and the flight centre, banks which I thought is about global stuff.