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How Traditional Chinese Furniture Instructs Modern Office Furniture Design

Mu, Shuai
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554212280408733

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2019, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Compared to the thousands of years of Chinese traditional furniture, the development of Chinese office furniture has a short history, The design of the office furniture has been influenced by the west and its priorities cater to a user’s physical needs. This influence has prevented the ability to include traditional Chinese furniture that carries forward not only the heritage but also the subtle emotional needs. The focus of this thesis is to bring back that heritage in the contemporary office by blending both functional needs of the office furniture with the emotional needs of the traditional form. The Ming-style chairs are studied from each of their components to their holistic composition theory based on the method of interpreting cultural artifacts (ICA). Furthermore, the target users working in a typical Chinese office environment were analyzed from the observation and interview by using interpreting cultural behavior (ICB). In the last section, the target user’s emotional needs are addressed through the analysis of their workstyle and representative behaviors. The corresponding design references drawing upon Ming-style furniture are found by linking the interpretations of both cultural artifacts and target user’s behaviors. And the design guidelines are put forward for designing modern Chinese-style office furniture.
Craig Vogel, M.I.D. (Committee Chair)
Peter Chamberlain, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Gerald Michaud, M.A. (Committee Member)
61 p.
Design
Ming-style furniture; modern office furniture

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  • Mu, S. (2019). How Traditional Chinese Furniture Instructs Modern Office Furniture Design [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554212280408733

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mu, Shuai. How Traditional Chinese Furniture Instructs Modern Office Furniture Design. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554212280408733.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mu, Shuai. "How Traditional Chinese Furniture Instructs Modern Office Furniture Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554212280408733

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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