A RESEARCH IN SPIRITUAL APPROACH TOWARDS DESIGN: INTRODUCING THE SPIRITUAL METHOD FOR DESIGN

• Main Authors: Daiki Hirata, 平田大樹
• Other Authors: Kuohsiang Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62523878767490875035

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 創意產業設計研究所 === 96 === As an Industrial Designer, a research on a spiritual approach towards Designs was analyzed to bring this concept forward for a new perspective and an enhancement into emotional designs. The current Emotional Designs focus on a physical trait of emotion where tangible feeling is focused on more. Although this tangible-emotional approach has presented well, as designs are starting to focus on lifestyle, sustainability, and expression; a spiritual approach towards designing was thought to bring emotionality to a different level to satisfy the people in an intangible-emotional way by providing human needs and environmental friendliness in one. By putting an emphasis on combining tangible forms to bring in intangible result, I provide a method to let the user feel the intangible connection with a product by “going beyond emotion,” which I call it a Spiritual Design (Eastern) or Spirit-Minded Design (Western). This research will start by proving spiritual products do exist by using a survey to begin by introducing spirituality inside products and how these feelings can enhance emotions to a different level. This thesis will use qualitative research methods, surveys, and a product formed from the method for experiment and testing purpose. The success of the experiment shows how emotion can be appreciated by experience rather than just feeling alone. Future works may include the use and the exploration of spiritual method for design in different design fields, cross-culturalization, and applying the method to existing products to see if the particular product can be turned into a spiritual product or not.