Abstract
According to the social, economic, technological, and cultural aspects of change leading from the past to the present and to the future, a number of products, life styles, and practices are created, nullified, or combined to generate different forms of values. Likewise in the automotive industry, there have been a variety of genres that have gone through the process of creation, fixation, disappearance, or transformation for a short period of more than 100 years. As the recent changes in human needs are globalization and complicated, the automotive genre is rapidly diversified and combined in terms of style, function, performance, and space. Referred to as "fusion" or "cross-over," this tendency is interconnected with the major changes in design value and the flow of such changes. Also in the automotive industry, such tendency is expected to continue for a substantial period of time, provided that the combination will proceed from the outside to the inside and from external factors (such as style and function) to immanent factors (such as performance and space). As a result, this study came up with the new values of automobile design with a specific study model, while coming to the conclusion there will be a change from the current mode – in which a car is defined by its external appearances – to a new combination model – under which the car's external shape is determined by its actual user viewpoint, space structure, and interior design. As methods for deduction of conclusion, the study went through five types of research and analysis processes. First, a basic pilot study was conducted to find the factors of dramatic change in each of the fields of society, economy, technology, and culture. Subsequently, the study, in terms of the observed factors, examined and analyzed the aspects and characteristics of change in the automotive genre. After identifying an interlink from correlation between the above two processes, the third process clarified in which way the combination proceeds. The fourth process included a forecast research on the future society, economy, technology, and culture to offer the directions of combination in the future automotive genres. In the final process, there were multilateral procedures for inspection and complement. During the foregoing processes, the study examined the aspects of change from the past to the future in economy, society, technology, and culture - and their related changes in the automotive genres. The results has a significant meaning because they allow us to forecast the aspects of future vehicle design; show the future social and environmental flows; and introduce new techniques for vehicle design.
Citation
Jeong, Y., Lee, S., Jang, H., Koo, S., Boo, S., Ham, W., and Kim, J. (2004) What Kind of Vehicle Should Be?, in Redmond, J., Durling, D. and de Bono, A (eds.), Futureground - DRS International Conference 2004, 17-21 November, Melbourne, Australia. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2004/researchpapers/105
What Kind of Vehicle Should Be?
According to the social, economic, technological, and cultural aspects of change leading from the past to the present and to the future, a number of products, life styles, and practices are created, nullified, or combined to generate different forms of values. Likewise in the automotive industry, there have been a variety of genres that have gone through the process of creation, fixation, disappearance, or transformation for a short period of more than 100 years. As the recent changes in human needs are globalization and complicated, the automotive genre is rapidly diversified and combined in terms of style, function, performance, and space. Referred to as "fusion" or "cross-over," this tendency is interconnected with the major changes in design value and the flow of such changes. Also in the automotive industry, such tendency is expected to continue for a substantial period of time, provided that the combination will proceed from the outside to the inside and from external factors (such as style and function) to immanent factors (such as performance and space). As a result, this study came up with the new values of automobile design with a specific study model, while coming to the conclusion there will be a change from the current mode – in which a car is defined by its external appearances – to a new combination model – under which the car's external shape is determined by its actual user viewpoint, space structure, and interior design. As methods for deduction of conclusion, the study went through five types of research and analysis processes. First, a basic pilot study was conducted to find the factors of dramatic change in each of the fields of society, economy, technology, and culture. Subsequently, the study, in terms of the observed factors, examined and analyzed the aspects and characteristics of change in the automotive genre. After identifying an interlink from correlation between the above two processes, the third process clarified in which way the combination proceeds. The fourth process included a forecast research on the future society, economy, technology, and culture to offer the directions of combination in the future automotive genres. In the final process, there were multilateral procedures for inspection and complement. During the foregoing processes, the study examined the aspects of change from the past to the future in economy, society, technology, and culture - and their related changes in the automotive genres. The results has a significant meaning because they allow us to forecast the aspects of future vehicle design; show the future social and environmental flows; and introduce new techniques for vehicle design.