Semiotic Research on Emergent Processes in Man-Environment System Design

从符号学的角度分析人-环境系统的设计过程，探讨突现设计的机制。本研究的主要成果如下：1。将包括设计、生产和生活过程在内的宏观设计过程称为人-环境系统设计，并阐明了其基本原理。隐喻是将某种（未知）事物视为另一种（已知）事物的过程，它在创意设计过程中起着重要作用。因此，我们构建了一个建筑杂志《新kenchiku》中艺术作品中的隐喻数据库，并在结构分析的基础上开发了各种类型的隐喻，并阐明了这些隐喻是如何在建筑设计中出现的。此外，我们还试图提出一些隐喻的形式模型。我们要求建筑专业的学生使用隐喻进行设计实验，并通过将这些设计过程描述为符号过程，阐明隐喻是如何产生的，以及它们在突发过程中扮演了什么样的角色，从已知的事物中产生未知的事物。观察到一个令人惊讶的事实(C)。如果A是真理，C是固有物质（A→C）。因此有理由说A是真理(A)这种推理叫做溯因法。在本研究中，我指出了一个基于绑架结构的突现过程的特征。通过将设计过程中包括简报、设计、评价等所有环节视为符号学，展示了构建人-环境系统设计理论的可能性。

We explored the mechanism of emergent designs by means of analyzing the design process of man-environment system from semiotic viewpoints. The main results of this research are as follows.1. We called the macro design process, including design, production, and life processes, Man-Environment System Design, and clarified its fundamental principles.2. As metaphor is the process of regarding certain (unknown) things as another (known) things, and it takes important roles in creative design processes. Therefore we constructed a database of metaphors in works of art found in an architectural magazine "Shinkenchiku", and developed various types of metaphors and clarified how those metaphors appeared in an architectural design based on structural analysis. Moreover we tried to propose some formal models of metaphor.3. We asked architectural students to develop design experiments using metaphors, and clarified how metaphors were generated and what kind of roles they took in emergent processes, generating unknown things from known things, by means of describing those design process as sign processes.4. A surprising fact C is observed (C). If A is the truth, C is a proper matter (A→C). Therefore there is the reason that A is the truth (A). Such reasoning is called as abduction. In this research, I pointed out that a an emergent process was characterized based on the structure of abduction.5. We showed the possibility to construct the theory of Man-Environment System Design by means of regarding all design processes including briefing, designing, and evaluation as semiosis.