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Speculating Wedding Futures in China : = Cultural Design in Theory and Practise.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Speculating Wedding Futures in China :/
Reminder of title:	Cultural Design in Theory and Practise.
Author:	Dong, Fangzhou.
Description:	1 online resource (203 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-10A.
Subject:	Weddings. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798377690412

Speculating Wedding Futures in China : = Cultural Design in Theory and Practise.
Dong, Fangzhou.

Speculating Wedding Futures in China :Cultural Design in Theory and Practise. - 1 online resource (203 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This PhD research explores the intersection of culture and design, taking wedding culture, one of the most significant family events in China, as an exemplary case study. Design is widely interpreted as a kind of cultural activity. The mainstream design, where most existing research at the intersection of culture and design investigates, often tries to solve problems and design products/services that fit into the current cultural landscape, namely design for culture. Rather than looking at this project through the lens of a design-for-culture approach, research focus has been paid to cultural design, which tries to critically visualise potential socialcultural issues and to pose questions, inspire discussions and nudge cultural changes at large. This is because it is tricky to stimulate design innovation for cultural rituals, especially when trying to change or solve the problems caused by so-called "traditions". The main goals of this thesis include exploring how the cultural components of weddings in China are investigated and integrated into cultural design practises and what the interactions of culture and design within cultural design practises are.This project is rooted in the practice of participatory ethnography for design and fits within the overall framework of Constructive Design Research. Following a qualitative research strategy, thirteen cultural design projects under the topic of wedding culture in China are conducted, and the process is recorded and analysed to approach findings. The findings of this research lie in three levels. At the practical level, twelve projects are presented to describe what the cultural design projects are that take marriage culture in China as the design topic. Based on that, at the methodological level, a guideline entitled Speculative Ethnography, a cultural framework, and some techniques are presented to explain how the cultural design projects are conducted and communicated, as well as how wedding culture in China is investigated and integrated with this process. Culture is integrated into the speculated future following the investigation of the past and present in layers of Cultural Cognition (with three layers of Artefacts and behaviour, Meanings and values, and Basic assumptions) and Cultural Environment. Finally, at the theoretical level, the interactions of culture and design within cultural design are examined to analyse why those projects are conducted in that way. It has been interpreted as speculative cultural intermediaries that transform cultural meanings in four stages. The novelty of findings includes extending and adapting the theories and methods in the design for culture category into the cultural design, as well as providing a culture-centred perspective instead of the technology-centred perspective as most cultural design genres do. This research will benefit design students to apply the proposed guideline, framework and techniques to integrate culture in layers when conducting cultural design projects. Cultural design is proposed as a knowledge source to encourage cultural design practise in design education in China. It will also contribute to inspiring researchers at the intersection of design studies and cultural studies to explore more theories and methods in this field.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798377690412Subjects--Topical Terms:

1470851
Weddings.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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