Study on Practicing, Teaching and Sharing on Design for Sustainability in China
This paper aims to study the feasibility of DFS (design for sustainability) in China from “ideas” to “execution”. The feasible practice ways on DFS in China include taking advantages of Lens-China platform, application of systematic views and valuing the
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Abstract This paper aims to study the feasibility of DFS (design for sustainability) in China from “ideas” to “execution”. The feasible practice ways on DFS in China include taking advantages of Lens-China platform, application of systematic views and valuing the social innovation. The features of “teaching” and “learning” in different institutions are analyzed in China. This paper also gives some proposals about how to share these experiences of practicing and teaching of DFS, meanwhile analyzes the advantages and feasibility of such proposals. In short, design interventions must adapt to China’s national contexts. To verify theories and determine the practical guidelines of DFS in China, practitioners need to practice frequently, and simultaneously share these practicing experience through many channels, in order to find out a set of effective practice methods and teaching mode. Keyword Design for sustainability in China
Practicing Teaching Sharing
1 Introduction Although the design world has generally realized the urgency of DFS demand, just a few DFS projects have been carried out in China while most projects are more like conceptual designs. This phenomenon has two causes: Firstly, DFS is a developing concept in China, which is vaguely defined and is not provided with any applicable assessment system to China, so it is hard to forecast or judge whether these projects are “sustainable”. Secondly, what students have learnt are mostly western DFS theories, but the disconnection between theory and practice exists even in western countries. In view of the difference between Chinese and foreign contexts, a lot of theories cannot be
M. Lyu (&) Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 J.I. Kantola et al. (eds.), Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 498, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_82
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directly applied, so students often have no clues about what to do though they have discovered some problems in practice. Therefore, the author, based on the research experience in the LeNS-China project, explores the feasible practicing approaches in recent years and summarizes different teaching experiences of Chinese universities, in order to facilitate the development of DFS from research to practice.
2 Feasible Approaches for Implementation of DFS Ideas 2.1
A Platform of LeNS-China1 to Share Teaching and Practice on DFS
LeNS-China is originally designed to act as an online resource database for DFS teaching, so that students, teachers and other colleagues can get to know the updates of the development of practicing and theories of DFS. It originates from the European LeNS project,2 however with some obvious differences. In Europe, only those who have registered as LeNS members can share case studies and course materials offered by the website, while LeNS-China is open to the public for free in China and anyone can browse
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