Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei Bao (0009-0008-4696-854X, corresponding author), Weihong Bao |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 428-461 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/723722 |
| OpenAlex | W4362575923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
In this article, I explore the promise and pitfalls of medium as environment by tracking the twin developments of environmental thinking and set design in China, considering it as a problematic of epistemology, technology, and aesthetics. I treat huanjing (environment) as a neologism, a new episteme, a dispositif, and a mode of power, taking set design as the companion medium that reconnects art and technology, aesthetics and politics. Reconceptualizing set, design, and environment at the intersection of industrial design and progressive education, I focus on modernist and propagandistic practice of set design in China in the 1930s and ’40s, moving from set design in film and theater to the design and practice of human/environment that constitutes the landscape of the social. How these aesthetic and technical experiments rework the social will help us reconfigure the human in the reassemblage of our medium/environment complex
Aesthetics · Architectural engineering · Art · Engineering ethics · Episteme · Epistemology · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Engineering · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |