Abstract
Industrial designers have a need to acquire knowledge related to physical materials and undertake activities such as materials selection and materials-driven creative design. Chinese indigenous materials (CIMs) and relevant crafts are identified as a significant but currently untapped resource for designers. Existing research lacks systematic organization and classification for this rich resource making it difficult to develop an online materials database for creative design. To enable industrial designers to develop an understanding of CIMs, obtain design inspiration and stimulate creative design activity, this paper reports on the development of a framework for a taxonomy of CIMs. Through literature review and analysis of existing design tools, the purpose, ending conditions, basic methods and framework of a taxonomy were identified. Taking Xuan Paper as an example, a case study was undertaken to establish methods and processes. When combined with expert interviews and user questionnaires, the usefulness, efficiency and acceptability of the research framework were evaluated, optimized and validated. The findings indicate that a CIM taxonomy can support designers to systematically acquire materials and processing information, facilitate materials-driven creative design, material comparison/selection and provide a framework for the construction of CIM-related databases.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 462 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 29 Mar 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Mar 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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We would like to acknowledge all individual participants included in the online survey and the experts included in the interviews. This work was supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education’s Collaborative Education Project of Production and Education [grant number 202102071001]. The paper was funded by Central Universities Basic Research Funding Project.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China | 202102071001 |