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Blog 11--Methodology and summary

To be honest, this is not my first social media blog, but this is the first blog about my design project and subject. After completing these blogs, I strongly agree that this process of recording the design process and inspiration is very meaningful. Nowadays, the information flows very fast, and we can browse a lot of relevant and useful information on the internet platform, which is very effective. However, because of the fast speed of transmission and browsing, that information remains in the mind for a very short and fleeting time.

Through the record of this blog, it deepened the information absorption process and impression in the last 3 months. This is a start, I should keep recording all the valuable information and knowledge around me.

In these 11 blogs, I recorded the exhibitions I visited, some research materials on project bionics and music, the application of 3D projection technology and interior design.

I have adopted the main approach is visual, creative and experimental. When I write my blog I always describe these project objectivity, and then analyse that subjectivity. I think that is the purpose from every project. The authors hope to express their emotions through their works, and at the same time to give the audience some inspiration and thinking, therefore, the thinking could make their works more interesting and valuable. Through the combination of subjective consciousness and objective consciousness, a work can be perfectly and comprehensively analyzed.

A limitation in these blog is that I have focused on visual expression and visual communication，most of them about interior design, less one from poster design, after finished all the blog, I thought I should view some information and skill from other filed, like product design, lighting design, it can give me more experience and enrich my project design.

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Annotated bibliography

Academic sources:

1.Bürdek, B (2015)

Design : History, Theory and Practice of Product Design

Walter de Gruyter GmbH  ProQuest Ebook Central

This book presents a very systematic knowledge of the origin, classification, theory, conception and so on, in the design discipline. It gives great help and knowledge accumulation to anyone who interested in design or engaged in design study and work.

The book focuses on the perspective around the developments that have shaped the history of industrial design, briefly covering the products, companies, and designers that mark  the significant events and their repercussions.

This book introduces me a lot about the design of the relevant knowledge, very helpful to my graduate study in all the investigation, design projects and learning.  Also how integrate design into products, industry, architecture, etc.

 2. Barbara, P (2019) Protection of Authenticity in the Process of Historic Sacral Site Adaptation. Contemporary Interior Decoration in Renovation Design  IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering  ISSN: 1757-8981  Volume: 471   Page: 82050   DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/471/8/082050

The article presents the ways of reconstruct the ancient architecture in Some parts of Europe and Asia. The article focuses on the perspective according to how to reconstruct the ancient building also aligning with its new function.

The article is supported by some evidence for the authentic value of the adaptation ancient building,it cannot be limited to material heritage only, it contains obvious values: historical and social background, commemorative symbols, building sites, used materials, details, form or architecture.

This article is useful for my research about how to adaptation of ancient subject with the specific condition. However, is the efforts of many to save the material and intangible values of the cultural heritage handed to us by previous generations and to make the best use of this resource.

 3. .ROSSI, M., 2016. Architectural Perspective Between Image and Building. Nexus Network Journal, 18(3), pp. 577-583.

The journal presents the origin, development, principle and application of perspective. Especially the application of perspective in architectural design structure. The journal focuses on the architecture perspective which includes studies of its mathematical nature, architectural performance and history, its theaters, and various projection applications in measuring and performing surfaces.

The journal collected in the issue provide an overview of the interest in the applications of perspective to architecture and their current validity in architectural and stage design. This journal is useful for help me understand the origin and development of perspective.It is my more thorough understanding of how to apply the principle of perspective in architecture.

 4. Lees-Maffei, G, & Fallan, K (eds) 2013, Made in Italy : Rethinking a Century of Italian Design, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London.

Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central.  [25 October 2019].

 The book presents the development and trend of Italian design style in 1920-1960. The book focuses on the perspective around car design, product design, fashion and gallery interior space. Also present some general information about some historiography of Italian design.

The author of this book is a well-know scholar in the field of the Italian design trend in a specific period. The book give some critical on the place of national histories in an increasingly globalised design environment, provides historical context for understanding Italian design during the period.

This book introduces me about Italian style in different design area between 1920-1960, especially in chapter 3, interior of gallery. This is mainly related to my discipline which will help me understand the interior architectural styles around the world and facilitate my research.

 5. Hsiao, L. and White, M. (2015) ‘The Bauhaus and China: Present, Past, and Future’, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History & Material Culture, 22(2), pp. 176–189. doi: 10.1086/685869.

 The journal presents the in 2011, the China academy of art held a semi-permanent Bauhaus exhibition in Hangzhou, based on the city's large collection of modern European design.

The journal focuses on the perspective through a review of the exhibition and recent Chinese literature, this journal reflects on China's complex acceptance of Bauhaus architecture since the beginning of the 20th century, and explores its multiple dissemination points in a relatively long period. The journal give some critical on the analysis of this history is used to assess the application of the Bauhaus narrative in modern China.

According to this article, Bauhaus has just established relevant art galleries in China in recent years. On the one hand, there are some regrets. It's been 100 years since Bauhaus was born, but China just open the gallery for 9 years. On the other hand, Bauhaus build art galleries only in China and Japan in Asia. On the other hand, reflect China's status in the world, which is similar to that of many developed countries.

 6. Gronlund, M. (2017). Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. London: Routledge, https://doi-org.ezproxy.herts.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315676852

 The book analyzes the influence of Internet and digital technology on contemporary art and digital culture.Besides, while being familiar with the rise of art, art is also influenced by various factors, such as war, urgent economic，political events and various social changes.

This book has discuss the growing importance of artists in determining the status of an object as art, as well as the further theoretical transformation of art objects brought about by the Internet: in art practice, the way circulation itself has been theorized, and the transformation of art objects from unique objects to circulating images. The book give some critical on “How has the art world been changed by the internet？”Also take a look at how the art world's infrastructure responds to the promise of democratizing the Internet.

This book introduces me about how contemporary art addresses digitality, circulation, privacy, and globalization, and suggests how feminism and gender binaries have been shifted by new mediation of identity.

 7. Reucher, G  ( 2018)  Made for minds  Retrieved October 10, 2019

From: https://www.dw.com/en/the-legacy-of-bauhaus-100-years-on/a-45094358

 This book introduces me that Bauhaus artists were looking for solutions to how to shape life in a way ,also used simple shapes to design products that were easy to manipulate. The book analyzes the Bauhaus education system facing the huge question of how digitalization shapes design and how it affects society and social behavior."

This book has discuss Bauhaus ideas and products are now in high demand again, and not just because of the 2019 centenary. It is recognized that in a globalised world, we must deal with natural resources differently and cannot continue to consume and produce as before. The book give some critical through the Bauhaus artist's design of some industrial products with simple geometry as the core of design, how to make the interplay of art and technology.

8. Bauhaus ( 2019 ) 100 Years Of Bauhaus 

Retrieved October 10, 2019  From: https://www.bauhaus100.com/the-centenary/

 This website introduces me the Bauhaus centenary is a national event of international influence. Here you can learn how each Bauhaus member is connected to Bauhaus and modernism and how they will contribute to the project in 2019.

This website gives a detailed introduction to the creation of Bauhaus, including numerous Bauhaus scholars, designers and major events. There are many articles and journals on Bauhaus influence on design, architecture, culture, etc. In the website, there is a column of Bauhaus exhibition halls set up all over the world, such as Tokyo, New York, Hangzhou and so on. We can feel directly on the website how contemporary art interacts with Bauhaus culture.

The online Bauhaus journal details Bauhaus's research process and results. It reflects issues before and after Bauhaus events and exhibitions and deepens the insights gained through a network of collaborators and international researchers.

 9. Liang Sicheng. (2014). Why Study Chinese Architecture? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 73(1), 8-11. doi:10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.8

The author of the journal is Liang Sicheng. He is one of the most influential people who contributed a lot to Chinese architecture. This journal introduces me that the development of Chinese architecture. Start from the beginning of 20th centre. The journal has a profound influence on the development history of modern Chinese architecture, and has a real historical record.

The journal analyzes the Chinese people's rejection of Chinese classical culture in 1940, after the war of resistance against Japanese aggression. It was the general attitude of the time to worship foreign things. The journal give some critical about many historical relics and buildings were destroyed during the war. When the city was rebuilt, many people destroyed many historic buildings in the name of progress and development. The author seriously criticizes this kind of behavior, which makes the Chinese nation lose its soul.

This journal has discuss the importance of traditional culture to Chinese history. It is very important that the Chinese preserve their own independent Chinese style and preserve the original historic buildings.

 10.  Interface ( 2016)  Biomimicry & The Biomimetic Office building

Retrieved December 5, 2019

From: https://blog.interface.com/biomimicry-the-biomimetic-office-building/

This website introduce me an office building which related biomimicry subject. The office building design inspiration comes from the translucent four-eyed spookfish and a spindly-legged cousin of the starfish, the brittle star, both deep ocean dwellers. 

The website explain some design inspiration and the some information of the building. Also claim that, there are different direction for deign around biomimicry. Such as, the structure of the shape, color. Or special grow feature, like the mimosa pudica, or sensitive plant, and Venus flytrap move in response to touch or other external stimulation. This website give me some idea about my project of practice 1(biomimicry). It can make me study from an existed case.  

 11.  Lehner, S, (2018)  Why Do We Rely So Much on Geometry in Our Designs?

Retrieved December 5, 2019   From: https://blog.interface.com/geometry-in-design/

 This website introduce me the reason why designers prefer use geometry pattern all the time on architecture,or furniture shape design, pathway and hallway design. The reason comes from the nature. Pattern can be found everywhere in nature: tree branches, snowflakes, zebra stripes, nautilus shells.

The website explain some method to use geometry design, such as, symmetry, spirals, fractals, tessellations. Builders and engineers rely on geometric principles to create structures safely. Designers apply geometry to make the aesthetically pleasing spaces inside.

This website give me some idea about the basic of construction, also, the geometry is study from nature. Geometry is an integral part of design from start to finish. According my practice 1, biomimicry, give me some geometric idea.

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Critical Analysis

Lifei Guan    17029712

MA Interior Architecture Design

Research and Enquiry: Critical Analysis

Word Count: 1014

Hsiao, L. and White, M. (2015) ‘The Bauhaus and China: Present, Past, and Future’, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History & Material Culture, 22(2), pp. 176–189. doi: 10.1086/685869.

 This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, and the world is full of coverage and backtracking. Many related cultures and design styles of Bauhaus have also become the focus of world attention. The simplicity and modern style of Bauhaus have penetrated into the core of European and western societies. However, for many eastern countries, they are still in the process of learning and exploring, such as China. This journal reflects on China's complex acceptance of Bauhaus architecture since the beginning of the 20th century, and explores its multiple dissemination points in a relatively long period.

In 2011, a Bauhaus art exhibition hall was just opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. According to China's national conditions and history, some relevant articles also elaborate and analyze the situation, as a big country with a history and culture, there are omissions in art and it has been divorced from the world's art and culture for so long. As someone who came from China to study art and design in the UK, I was also confused. Just at this time, I read this article, gained something, and disagreed with some of the content, which is why I want to analyze this article. Especially in Richard Paulick's description of the cultural society of Shanghai in 1941.

I will be specifically analysing the subsections of the last part：Future: The China Design Museum. 

                                           “Despite all these crisscrossing paths, it is hard to establish significant sources for the Bauhaus in China. Even Richard Paulick himself was skeptical about his own situation, as he wrote to Gropius in Harvard in 1941: Though we are wearing collars, shirts, and trousers, Shanghai is a place without any cultural life. That’s why we have been cut off entirely from any knowledge of artistic developments in the world. ·····Bauhaus started is still alive.”

This paragraph concluded that Richard Paulick, a famous Bauhaus scholar, expressed his feelings when he studied modern culture in Shanghai. He believed that even though everyone was dressed decently in a suit, shirt and tie, Shanghai was a place without culture and modern ideology at the root. When people use a place to describe a feeling, they are actually expressing the people there.

I wouldn't guess Richard's mentality and feelings when he lived in Shanghai. But from his description, it seems that he is disappointed with Shanghai because it lacks the atmosphere of modern design culture. However, I also read some articles about Richard living and working in Shanghai, from Li Hao, “Richard Paulick and the Remaking of a Greater Shanghai 1933–1949”, Li highly recognized Richard's achievements and contributions to interior design in Shanghai, and published many of Richard's interior design works.

In my opinion, Shanghai is not a place without cultural atmosphere. If not, how could Richard have the opportunity to create and design freely? I think when Richard decided to work in Shanghai for 16 years, it was because he saw that Shanghai, as a relatively fashionable and open city, played an important role in the development of Chinese history, which was the cultural characteristics of Shanghai itself.

The writer tries to explain why China's slow contact with Bauhaus can be seen from various historical events, such as the establishment of the communist party of China, the lack of an open medium for cultural communication with the world after the founding of China, and the fault state of cultural exclusion in China during the cultural revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. There has a logical structure and conveys his ideas by referencing. These are very real political and historical reasons. Without stability of state power, it is natural to reject the culture spread by the outside world.These evidences and examples are very strong to support the authors’ argument.

I must admit that many political, war and other historical factors were crucial factors in China's slow acceptance of Bauhaus. When the state is unstable, when the society is unstable, there is a lot of information about the spiritual level that is delayed by the war, by hunger, by the survival factors that are necessary for survival. I quite agree with the author on this point.

However, we cannot quote Richard's description of Shanghai from the author and induce the reader to think that Shanghai in 1941 was a place without culture, but the culture was temporarily hidden by the influence of the Chinese regime struggle.

In the full text, the author explains the process of China's slow acceptance of Bauhaus through the timeline of the past, present and future, and imagines that in the future design space, we will have our own Bauhaus architecture and works with Chinese style. That's exactly what I'm looking forward to.

On my reflection of the content, I quite agree with the authors’ analysis of how a new western culture was accepted and recognized in China. Today, most area of the world is peaceful and stable. But when you look back at China in the middle of the 20th century, for example, when China went through the changes of different regimes. People were escaping the smoke of war and fighting against hunger. Under such an environment, we can not imagine how difficult it is for a new culture to be born, especially when western culture tries to integrate into the eastern environment.  Bauhaus has today's social status and an important moment of 100 years' commemoration. That is the precious treasure of human civilization.

In addition, at the end of the article, the authors’ imagination and expectation about China's continuation of Bauhaus and China's future design style are shining a light for new Chinese designers and encouraging new designers to create more fresh inspirations for the world.

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Blog-10 Wor, Guangdong, by Domani

Towards the end of the first semester of interior design, review the three months spent exploring design, the centenary of Bauhaus, the poster collection of the Cuban movement, biomimicry, etc. After sharing some design works in other fields, I will share a project related to my subject this time. It was a project of the 2018 China interior design awards last year. This is the interior design of a fashion shop in Guangdong province, China. Designer Domani created a stylish, minimalist style for a global fashion buyer's shop.

The design concept was "strange and angular space" for 1 Wor, which took advantage of the current low saturation colors, such as tat-pink, sea-green and gold partition walls. The colors are very classy and special and suit the taste of the fashion buyer.

Perhaps the designer was influenced by Bauhaus to reduce the complex decoration and create a very simple geometric space for the whole environment. It can make customers' attention not disturbed by the environment, and it is easy to focus on the products in this store space. This is also a design skill that can inspired me. Clever colors are applied to simple geometric forms. The hollowed-off circular partition and metal pipe are used as a partition to separate the space, which also simplifies the construction operation.

Levy, N ( 2019 )10 projects by Chinese interior designers worth knowing about

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/05/16/chinese-interior-designers-elle-decoration-china/

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Blog-9 Exhibition about “Human Body and feelings”

In mid-november, I visited several galleries, including the House of illustrations and the Wellcome Collection.   

 The works in the House of illustrations exhibition were produced by 33 designers, many of them women. All were created between 1965 and 1992, reframing the familiar story of the Cold War through a wholly unfamiliar angle.

There are several exhibitions about Human Body in the Wellcome Collection , such as Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Body Image, Being Human. Most exhibitions are about Human Body and feelings. 

When visiting the exhibition, I feel that human is a very complicated creature, who pays too much attention to selfishness and appears selfish. If you focus too much on others, you will lose yourself. The degree that this ego holds certain good. Control yourself, you can slowly grasp the life around and influence the world.

Wellcome  collection (2019)  Being Human   retrieved Nov 15, 2019   https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/XNFfsxAAANwqbNWD

House of illustration (2019)  Designed in Cuba: Cold War GraphicsAn unprecedented exhibition of original Cuban propaganda posters and magazines.

retrieved Nov 15, 2019 https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/whats-on/current-future-events/designed-in-cuba-cold-war-graphics/

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Blog-8 Biomimicry part 2

Halfway through the course of semester A, my design work which about biomimicry, has gradually taken shape. In my primary research, there was a suggestion about biomimicry: everything is connected. Therefore, I found several related natural species in the design, such as tree rings and terraced fields. This progressive structure of corrugated plates is very interesting. For example, the growth of rings, is a kind of years of accumulation, each additional ring, means that another year has passed. Every step in the terraced fields means another harvest.

Accumulation and receipt are a set of phrases that make people feel that their efforts are rewarded. They mean that we have not failed the time, as long as the pay, there will be a return, is a great comfort and hope.

 Therefore, I want to design a library or public library platform with progressive structure from this moral. Because knowledge and books will also give people such comfort, read the book, learned knowledge, sooner or later, at a critical moment, it will return to themselves. So when people sit on such a structural platform, reading books, is also to allow people to be in it, remind themselves, at the moment sitting on each layer of reading books will leave traces in their life rings.  Harvest and accumulation will be reflected naturally.

Lehner, S, (2018)  Why Do We Rely So Much on Geometry in Our Designs?

Retrieved December 5, 2019   From: https://blog.interface.com/geometry-in-design/

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Blog-7   Reflection of Music

As the project of my subject gradually entered into a specific form, I gradually explored the connection between music and architecture, and even thought that the rhythm and fragment connection of music could evolve into our understanding of many things.

Example: last week I used several drawings and drafts to explain and retell my understanding of a song. I divided the song into three stages. The melody in the first 10 seconds was vague, so I could not understand what it was trying to express. I just felt that some irregular notes and geometric shapes appeared in my mind along with the tune.

 Then came the second part, 10s-30s in which rhythm and fixed notes occasionally appeared in the melody, which also made me feel that the song belonged to the music background of electronic music.

 From 30 seconds music comes a very clear rhythm, notes, and even allows people to swing and dance to the rhythm. The appeal of electronic music appeared. I also draw some exercises for these three feelings respectively.

 At the same time, I also feel that this is the process of our understanding of something new and strange. From strange confusion, to ambiguity, to complete clarity of understanding.

Music is like a small lamp-stand, which can give us some inspirations of life, and can also be used in the later design to create a kind of spatial change, such as the change from the small winding space to the suddenly open large space.

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Blog-6  Video

Inspiration for the cloud stage

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Blog-6 Rhythm Of Architecture

Many things in the world are interrelated and many industries are related. For example, the deconstruction of architecture and the melody of music are both repeated and overlaid in the same rhythm.

About the process of my first design work in IAD, I am very interested in video mapping, various forms of stage lighting, rhythm of lines and surfaces. Different lighting effects can create different visual and emotional experiences.

The solid stage brings strength to the art, but also gives the audiences a sense of distance, not a strong sense of substitution

The lighting and props, as well as the soft stage, make it easier to attract the audiences and blend in. The structure and touch of cloud and foam make it a soft and gentle experience.

In my mind, the art stage gives the audience a new experience through lighting, music and artistic atmosphere, which is the emotional expression and visual experience that are not found in ordinary life. 

 Walking in the clouds is also a metaphor for many dreams and beautiful things. Thus, I want to create a soft things like cloud, and I wanted to get a sense of what it was like to walk in the cloud, to experience that kind of imagination. I think this is also the stage and art should be presented to the audience.

My branding of the project is Realize the rare feeling in ordinary life. maybe the first show is dancing in the fake cloud or dry ice, foam, bubble.

The cloud video is  in the next blog.

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Blog-5 Contemporary Art and Digital Culture

Digital technology and contemporary art is a hot topic and a popular art form.Projection art, digital media, one of the most popular expressions so far is VR.Last week, I participated in her graduation project exhibition presented by the last graduate of this major, about music and architecture projects. What's special is that he used VR in the exhibition, so that people can feel the interior of architectural design more personally.The application of digital media in art is becoming more and more common.It's also because technology has made life easier and more efficient, and it's also made it more fun to appreciate life. 

    Each era has its own unique artistic features. We are lucky to be able to inject our new creative inspirations in the latest wave of technology changing life. I will try to integrate them in the following design process, projection, instrument, etc.

Gronlund, M. (2017). Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. London: Routledge, 

Retrieved October 25, 2019   From https://doi-org.ezproxy.herts.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315676852

Eason ( 2018 ) Design Wang: Living design

Retrieved October 25, 2019   From https://www.designwant.com/r2631.html

Hsu, E ( 2019 ) HYPEBEAST

https://hypebeast.com/zh/2019/3/teamlab-universe-of-water-particles-in-the-tank-shanghai-exhibition

 Xiao,M (2019 ), Landscape

Retrieved October 25, 2019 From http://www.landscape.cn/event/2155.html

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Blog-4 The Thurgood Marshall  Federal Judiciary Building--- Edward Larabee Barnes

In my first group work last week, I learned about a talented architect and educator, Edward Larabee Barnes. He was born in Chicago in 1915. Received a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University in 1942. Influenced by Bauhaus, he began his creative career from 1960 until his death in 2002 at the age of 84. He is in the company of his wife, who is also an interior designer and has created many excellent works.

In our group study, we know his three works:

1962  Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts 1984  DALLAS TEXAS Dallas Museum of Art 1992   WASHINGTON DC Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building

Washington, DC Architect: Edward Larrabee Barnes Completion: 1992 Named for Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)  

I did some research on the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building. The building named for Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), the first African-American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. When Edward designed this work, he used a typical federal building style, structure and construction rhythm, but it is different from other federal building. He designed a massive glass in the middle of the building, which can absorb sunlight to make whole atrium light.

At the front door of the building, he also designed a whole glass facade. Interestingly, he used a completely different degree of hardness, the exact opposite material: hard granite combined with fragile glass. This glass surface is the highlight of the whole building. In the design of these two giant glass, the entire atrium is like a growing lantern. The designers also planted bamboo indoors, and we found that bamboo and lanterns are very typical Oriental elements. So this is also the highlight of the whole architectural work. The combination of eastern elements and western architecture.

In the study, I learned that Edward was also an outstanding representative of modern architecture since the Bauhaus period. In 1919, Bauhaus education opened the starting point of the 100 years of modern art civilization. These 100 years of architecture and art have a very special style. This also gives me great inspiration for my design works. Especially a person from China's eastern culture, learning under western education.

  Architech Of The Capitol  Retrieved October 10, 2019 From

https://www.aoc.gov/capitol-buildings/thurgood-marshall-federal-judiciary-building

Federal judiciary center  Retrieved October 10, 2019

From: https://www.fjc.gov/

Reucher, G  ( 2018)  Made for minds  Retrieved October 10, 2019

From: https://www.dw.com/en/the-legacy-of-bauhaus-100-years-on/a-45094358

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Blog-3  Dream & Parallel Universe

New things can make people feel excited, interested, but the same thing happens many times will not have the same excitement, except in one case, is the same dream repeated dream. I had one of those recurring dreams last week. It happens to me all the time. I dream the same dream, or the same dream, and then it happens in real life.It's all exciting and something to explore.

There have been many interpretations of dreams since ancient times. Such as《Duke Zhou Dream Interpretation》. In the present age summarized into books published.  Now information communication developed, and there is a website can be directly searched, very convenient. I wonder if this is only true in China. So I was talking about this experience in class with students from all over the world, and it turned out to be a universal phenomenon. A lot of people around me have had this experience, a dream about what's going to happen, even more than once.

  There are also books about dreams in the western world.

The more international explanation is Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams, published in November 1899. He thought the dream represented people's desire, the repressed desire in the subconscious activity will not directly express in the dream. So in the past dreams were taken as a sign. So dreams are symbolic.

But in the 1950s, from science fiction stories to scientific facts, there was a notion that there was space beyond our own. Everything you do in your life is done in alternate realities.This concept, known as the parallel universe, is an aspect of the astronomical theory of the multiverse.

Our current technology is too limited to fully prove whether our dreams are connected to another us in a parallel universe, but it makes us curious.In fact, we are also looking forward to whether we will have a different development and outcome.Also about the unknown, is also a new expectation of the present life, will we have different choices for the past, will have a different life?In fact, the root cause is that we are not satisfied with the current life, we will try to imagine the result of our re-choice, or because we are satisfied with the present state, but have expectations for the future, we want to predict the future.

In a word, it is the affirmation of the self and the examination of the ideal self.

 https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/dream-catcher/201407/dreams-and-the-many-worlds-interpretation-quantum-physics

https://www.disclose.tv/scientists-say-we-travel-to-parallel-universes-when-we-dream-315913 

https://www.epicreads.com/blog/top-10-parallel-universe-stories/

https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/studentmentalhealth/2018/03/27/dwelling-on-dreams-when-your-ideal-self-gets-in-the-way/

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Design from nature!

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Blog -2             Biomimicry project

 Nature is the mother of invention

 That is my second design project. I really agree with that. Some of what we live now comes from nature. It gave us the nutrients, the resources, the foundation of life, the inspiration to create. Nature is constantly giving, we are simply accepting and taking. So we should continue in life at the same time, grateful for the gift of nature. Biomimicry is an important discipline in which we find inspiration in nature.Feathers, skin, veins are all sources of inspiration that we can take and incorporate into our technological projects.

 I designed a project six months ago that was an emergency shelter after a disaster. I haven't really studied bionics before. But I got my inspiration from the origin of life. This inspiration is the matrix and part of nature. I think that our initial sense of security comes from being surrounded by the mother, or even growing up in the embryo, even though we don't seem to remember what that feels like. But that is the first experience of security in our lives, and the key to healing after a disaster - security.I have inserted some inspiration and pictures in the attachment to explain the design process. This is the initial concept of the design, there may be some imperfect or unrealistic place. But it does come from nature, and that's what I agree with.

Goddard, G, ( nd )  Biomimetic design: 10 examples of nature inspiring technology   Science focus  Retrieved December 5, 2019   From: https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/biomimetic-design-10-examples-of-nature-inspiring-technology/

Interface ( 2016)  Biomimicry & The Biomimetic Office building  Retrieved December 5, 2019   From: https://blog.interface.com/biomimicry-the-biomimetic-office-building/

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Blog-1    100th BAUHAUS

In October 2019, I officially entered University of Hertfordshire to study interior architecture  design. This year also happens to be the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus, Germany's famous modern design school, which led to our first design assignment : to design a poster for Bauhaus's centennial.

Before studying design, I heard about Bauhaus and learned about his enlightenment and guidance on modern design. For the contemporary design industry, architectural design, product design, stage performance and many other fields have been cultivated in addition to a lot of talent and ideas. So before this poster design, I also did some research. I learned that grid lines, triangles, circles and squares were the basis of Bauhaus design. Red, yellow and blue are the basic colors of the design. I admit that I do not know graphic design, nor have I studied it, but I designed this poster based on my own aesthetic and feelings. However, as this is my first formal design work, it is satisfactory, but it is also obvious that this is a beginner's work. But it did open up my interest in planes.

( 2019 ) 100 Years Of Bauhaus 

Retrieved October 10, 2019  From: https://www.bauhaus100.com/the-centenary/

Reucher, G  ( 2018)  Made for minds  Retrieved October 10, 2019

From: https://www.dw.com/en/the-legacy-of-bauhaus-100-years-on/a-45094358