Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2020, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (6): 10-16.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2020.06.002

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Technological Dimension: A New Perspective of Design History Periodization

ZHANG Jiao1,2, WANG Jian1   

  1. (1. School of Marxism, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China; 2. College of Arts, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China)
  • Received:2020-03-16 Revised:2020-03-16 Online:2020-11-25 Published:2020-12-22
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Abstract: Design history periodization is usually made from the dimension of history, aesthetics, design and designers, whose focus is on narrative description and lacking in the analysis of the internal motivation and logic of the development of design. From technological dimension, design history is periodized based on the expounding of the evolutionary history of design driven by technology. According to the degree of technological embedding, which is classified into four stages-shallow embedding, deep embedding, excessive embedding and appropriate embedding, design history is divided into four periods correspondingly, namely, survival technology design period, experience technology design period, sci-tech technology design period and organic technology design period, thereby revealing the uniqueness of design history periodization from the technological dimension and understanding the overall regularity of design evolution.

Key words: technological dimension, design history, technological embedding

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