Designing for Future Life: Interdisciplinary Design Practice Beyond Biology
Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v7i2.5089
Abstract
This paper takes “designing for future life” as its theme, and, based on design cases reflecting different scales and hierarchical levels, explores the essence of life through a cross-scale perspective, pays attention to biological dynamic laws, and takes these as the origin of design, continuously inspiring creative ideas and promoting innovation in design concepts and forms. This practice not only highlights a new direction for design practice in the field of art and technology, but also provides vivid examples for the integration of “biology” and “design”. These design practices construct unconventional worldviews and a generalized reality, using design works to challenge the boundaries of ontological existence, disciplinary domains, shared assumptions, and the limits between the possible and the impossible.
Keywords
bio-design, interdisciplinary teaching, innovative design
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