论文分享丨When West Meets East
“When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing” 是由我院Alice Comi、Daniel Graff、徐江、范斐四位老师共同撰写的论文，于2024年4月发表于学术期刊Design and Culture 。（点击文末 阅读原文 可访问文章页面）
The research article titled "When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing" was written by D&I faculty members Alice Comi, Daniel Graff, Xu Jiang and Fan Fei, and published online in the Journal Design and Culture, 19 Apr 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2024.2335428
本文作者
Authors
Alice Comi
同济大学设计创意学院副教授，她的研究探索设计与组织研究的交叉点，重点关注设计和组织的情境实践。
Alice Comi is an Associate Professor in the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. Her research explores the intersections between design and organization studies, with a focus on situated practices of designing and organizing.
Daniel Graff
同济大学设计创意学院特聘研究员，研究重点是设计过程实践和不同背景下的设计过程。成果曾多次发表于国际期刊，如Design Studies, the Journal of Engineering Design, 以及Team Performance Management.
Daniel Graff is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. His research examines designing in practice, and in different contexts. His work is published in international journals in design and group studies (e.g. Design Studies, the Journal of Engineering Design, and Team Performance Management).
徐江 Xu Jiang
同济大学设计创意学院教授，中国好设计委员会副主任，中国机械工程学会工业设计分会副理事长。他的研究领域为设计战略与管理、设计技术、设计哲学、具身设计。
Xu Jiang is a Professor at Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation. He serves as the Vice Director of China Good Design Committee of the Innovation Design Alliance of China, and the Vice Secretary General of the Industrial Design Branch of the Chinese Mechanics Engineering Society (CMES). He has been awarded the title of “China’s Top Ten Young People in Design Industry.” His research explores design management, design technology, design philosophy and embodied design.
范斐 Fan Fei
同济大学设计创意学院副教授，她致力于研究中国在设计管理和创业方面的实践及其对高等教育的影响。
Fan Fei is an Associate Professor at Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation. Her research explores Chinese practices in design management and entrepreneurship, and their implications for higher education.
论文简介
About the paper
摘 要
尽管中国设计师日益获得国际认可，但设计研究——对设计和设计活动的研究——仍主要从西方视角出发。文章探讨以中国视角如何推进设计研究，挑战和扩展对设计和设计活动的一般理解。首先，通过追溯现代设计在中国的兴起，讨论中文“设计"一词的含义，阐述影响中国设计实践的中国传统文化（如和谐、整体主义和变化），从而揭示中国视角。然后，论证了这种中国视角如何促进设计研究不同范式之间的联系，如何抵制设计研究中的还原论倾向，以及如何鼓励设计研究方法的实验性。文章对设计研究的贡献在于纳入了中国视角，并支持了设计研究非殖民化的进程。
关键词
设计研究；设计实践；中国文化；东西方文化；非殖民主义
Abstract
Although Chinese designers are gaining international recognition, design research (the study of design and designing) is still informed by a predominantly Western perspective. In this paper, we explore how taking into consideration the Chinese perspective can advance design research, by challenging and expanding prevailing understandings of design and designing. We first uncover the Chinese perspective, by tracing the emergence of modern design in China, discussing the meaning of the Chinese word for design, shè jì (设计), and elaborating some important aspects of the Chinese traditional culture (harmony, holism, and change) that influence Chinese design practices. We then argue how this Chinese perspective can foster connections between diverse paradigms of design research, counter the tendency toward reductionism in design research, and encourage experimentation in design research methods. This paper contributes to advance design research through inclusion of the Chinese perspective. By so doing, it also sustains the agenda of decolonizing design research.
Keywords
design research, design practices, Chinese culture, East–West, decolonial
关于《设计与文化》
About Design and Culture
《设计与文化》为设计领域的学术期刊，A&HCI艺术与人文科学引文索引收录期刊，旨在培育重新理解设计的新研究方向，鼓励设计学者和从业人员对社会正义、排外和特权进行批判性思考，以该刊为论坛，促进跨越权力差异、地理距离和学科鸿沟的对话。该刊鼓励提交严谨的研究性论文，展示设计如何深入参与社会政治和文化问题，也欢迎其他领域的学术论文，从本土认识论、权力的交叉分析和科技研究等视角，研究物质文化、实践和人工科学。
Design and Culture reflects the state of scholarship in the field of design and nurtures new or overlooked lines of inquiry that redefine our understanding of design. The editors invite design scholars and practitioners to think critically about social justice, exclusion, and privilege, and imagine the journal as a forum that can foster rich and provocative conversations across power-differentiated communities, geographic distance, and disciplinary divides.
Design and Culture strongly encourages the submission of rigorously researched papers that show how design is deeply engaged with socio-political and cultural issues, and welcomes scholarship from affiliated fields that - although perhaps not identifying directly with design discourse - investigate material culture, practices, and the science/status of the artificial through lenses of indigenous epistemologies, intersectional analyses of power and science and technology studies, among others.
Comi, A., Graff, D., Jiang, X., & Fei, F. (2024). When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing. Design and Culture, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2024.2335428
中文译文 | 范斐
编辑 | 钰璐
责编 | 雪青