Global migration and multicultural environments: Integrating design systems to facilitate cultural hybridization

Thumbnail Image
Date
2020-01-01
Authors
Sivasankar, Akshaya
Major Professor
Advisor
Diane Al Shihabi
Committee Member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Altmetrics
Authors
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Organizational Unit
Interior Design
Interior design is an ideal academic home for energetic and inquisitive students seeking a meaningful, varied and creative profession. For each new problem encountered, interior designers use a variety of methods to investigate and analyze user needs and alternatives for satisfying them. Armed with this insight, they enhance interior spaces to maximize occupant quality of life, increase productivity, and protect public health, safety and welfare. The interior designer's ultimate goal is to transform generic, impersonal rooms and areas into unique, expressive spaces that provide the greatest possible "fit" with the values, personalities, roles and potential of their occupants. The Department of Interior Design was established in 2012. Previously, the Interior Design Program was in the Department of Art and Design.
Journal Issue
Is Version Of
Versions
Series
Department
Interior Design
Abstract

Global economies and global conflicts have led to unprecedented migration in the twenty-first century. This research argues for successful multicultural environments and the creation of a design approach that facilitates cultural hybridization. It examines traditional design systems — deeply rooted in cultures, values, and religions — that continue to be expressed in building construction. It identifies the fundamental ideologies and principles of the design systems of Western civilization (Classical principles of design), India (Vaastu Shastra), and China, Japan, and Far East (Feng Shui) and the shared principles that allow the design systems to be integrated. It draws on literary and archival sources to understand defining principles and on case studies of historic and contemporary design integration, to show how and why traditional design systems have been successfully integrated. Findings are visually applied in two-dimensional prototypical plans and three-dimensional renderings.

Comments
Description
Keywords
Citation
Source
Copyright
Fri May 01 00:00:00 UTC 2020