Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

As we delve into the evolution of self and the environment, we come across a history of visual culture through an interactivity of man with nature. This project is an investigation into different aspects of visual culture and its influence on lifestyle, product evolution, and genre formation. Man has interacted with everything that is present in nature and new technology. This inquisition has given rise to a constant exploration using everything that is available. Tools were created, furnaces strengthened the clay, and we stumbled upon metal. Metallurgy gave rise to another era of love and war so on and so forth. Starting with the most “ancient products”, there look and feel, this inquiry explores product development processes through a need-based and eventually a want-based society. A race into commercialism is taking us away from nature and a spirit of understanding. We all are living inharmonious lives following the lifestyles against the natural creational laws within the societies we have developed for ourselves. Each day we are creating inharmonious products which affect us as well as the planet.