TRANSFORMING ROTE CULTURE INTO KIDS FURNITURE DESIGN FOR LENTERA HARAPAN SCHOOL IN ROTE

Devanny Gumulya

Abstract


Indonesia has unique and rich cultural background which is a precious resource of inspiration for designer. The study discussed how to apply the cultural values and elements into design features and apply it on design project designing kids furniture a Lentera Harapan School in Rote. Rote is currently under development and needs to preserve its cultural value. The design vision is to educate young children about Rote's cultural heritage.  The aims of the study is to identify cultural elements and values for product design application and to translate them through design principle. The study contribution has been firstly the study create guideline built from previous research on how to classify culture into three layers: outer, middle and inner layer. Secondly, from the design study case elaborate on how the framework is used in real design process.


Full Text:

PDF

References


Asokan, A. and Payne, M.J. (2008) Local Cultures and Global Corporations, Design Management Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 9-20.

Hatch, M.J. (1993) The dynamics of organizational culture, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 657-693.

Schein, E.H. (1985) The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: Sense and Nonsense About Culture Change,Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Lin, R. T. (2007). Transforming Taiwan aboriginal cultural features into modern product design: A case study of a cross- cultural product design model. International Journal of Design, 1(2), 45-53.

Leong, B.D. and Clark, H. (2003) Culture-Based Knowledge Towards New Design Thinking and Practice: A Dialogue, Design Issues, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 48-58

Norman, D. A. (2005). Emotional design: People and things.

Throsby, D. (2001) Economics and Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Sparke, P. (2004) An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present 2nd edn, Routledge, Oxon

Voon, T. (2007) Cultural products and the world trade organization, Cambridge University Press,Cambridge.

Wang, Y. H., Qin, S. F., & Harrison, D. (2013). Culture-inspired design principles, methods and tools in current products. In International Conference: Consilience and Innovation in Design. Tokyo, Japan.

Zheng, L. (2010) Research about application layers of traditional cultures on product design, Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design, 2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on IEEE , pp. 1128


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Flag Counter

INDEXED LINK