Abstract
In the face of the current environmental crises and the emergent debate over how we as a species should respond to it, local-context discussions, research, and practice are rapidly growing in a number of regions. Within the confines of the design community, there is an ever-growing view of these discussions as representing a culturally diverse perspective on design, as opposed to the current Western-centric design shaped by modernism and capitalist market economies, and as representing the emergence of an emerging design scene of pluriverse. This study extends the concept of the oyster reef conservation project referred to as "Hokkhi," produced in a social innovation-related Summer School held in Weitou Village, Fujian province, in the summer of 2022. Firstly, the authors produced a theoretical model based on Daoism's token of honesty (Fǎ xìn 法信) system by conducting in-depth field research and multi-stakeholder interviews in the Quanzhou region and combining this with literature analysis. Secondly, this model was then combined with the specific content required for the product design to produce three prototypes of artificial oyster reefs (AOR) co-created by the supplicant and the faithful. As important touchpoints in this project's product service system, these prototypes will be further transformed into boundary objects that will be further iterated through co-design activity. The prototypes provide a Chinese cultural perspective, particularly that of Southern Fujian culture on design, which provides value for design for both pluriverse and social innovation.
Keywords
design for pluriverse; design for social innovation; design prototype; oyster reef conservation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.100
Citation
Jiang, J., Zhang, S.,and Wu, Y.(2023) Exploring and facilitating Daoism's contributions to design prototype, a case study from a "More-than-Human" social innovation project: Hokkhi, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.100
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Exploring and facilitating Daoism's contributions to design prototype, a case study from a "More-than-Human" social innovation project: Hokkhi
In the face of the current environmental crises and the emergent debate over how we as a species should respond to it, local-context discussions, research, and practice are rapidly growing in a number of regions. Within the confines of the design community, there is an ever-growing view of these discussions as representing a culturally diverse perspective on design, as opposed to the current Western-centric design shaped by modernism and capitalist market economies, and as representing the emergence of an emerging design scene of pluriverse. This study extends the concept of the oyster reef conservation project referred to as "Hokkhi," produced in a social innovation-related Summer School held in Weitou Village, Fujian province, in the summer of 2022. Firstly, the authors produced a theoretical model based on Daoism's token of honesty (Fǎ xìn 法信) system by conducting in-depth field research and multi-stakeholder interviews in the Quanzhou region and combining this with literature analysis. Secondly, this model was then combined with the specific content required for the product design to produce three prototypes of artificial oyster reefs (AOR) co-created by the supplicant and the faithful. As important touchpoints in this project's product service system, these prototypes will be further transformed into boundary objects that will be further iterated through co-design activity. The prototypes provide a Chinese cultural perspective, particularly that of Southern Fujian culture on design, which provides value for design for both pluriverse and social innovation.