Developing Effective Design Strategies to Support Designs, Products and Practices That Have a Strong Origin in Local or National Cultures

文化产品和过程的振兴是一个过程，通过这个过程，我们可以重新审视与特定文化有关的传统产品、模式和过程，并使它们与现代相适应和/或以不同的形式使用它们。一个很好的例子是苏格兰格子呢在19世纪是如何通过为特定的颜色和图案序列分配氏族名称而重新焕发活力的。格子呢继续通过Vivien Westwood和Dolce&Gabbana等设计师在时尚市场重新亮相。文化复兴的另一个例子是，在20世纪50年代，布鲁斯音乐的基本十二小节形式如何转变为摇滚乐，然后又转变为摇滚乐。这种传统的音乐形式不断地被重新审视和复兴。研究人员参与了一系列振兴项目，例如：在利兹，卡西迪参与了一个博士项目，研究了用作包装材料的传统韩国Bojagi面料，并成功地将这些面料用于形成时尚面料；在兰开斯特，Walker和Evans正在开展两个博士项目，探索设计在泰国北部和土耳其传统手工艺复兴中的作用。这项提案的作者希望进行一项重大研究，检查现有的和新的案例研究，并提供一个模型，使未来的设计师能够将传统文化产品、图案和工艺用作新的、当代的产品、图案和工艺。除了期刊论文外，成果还将包括一本书，其中包括案例研究以及对拟议模式的解释和讨论。

The revitalising of cultural products and processes is a process by which we can re-examine traditional products, patterns and processes related to particular cultures and both contemporise them and/or use them in different forms for the modern age. A very good example of this is how Scottish tartan was revitalised in the 19th century by the allocation of clan names to particular colour and pattern sequences. Tartan continues to make re-appearances in the fashion market through designers such as Vivien Westwood and Dolce & Gabbana. Another example of cultural revitalisation is how, in the 1950s, the basic twelve bar form of blues music was transformed into rock and roll and thence into rock music. This traditional form of music is continuously revisited and revitalised.The researchers have been involved in a number of revitalising projects such as: at Leeds Cassidy has worked on a PhD project which examined traditional Korean Bojagi fabrics, used as wrapping materials, and experimented successfully with these to form fashion fabrics; at Lancaster Walker and Evans are working on two PhD projects exploring the role of design in the revitalisation of traditional crafts in Northern Thailand and Turkey.The authors of this proposal wish to undertake a major study to examine both existing and new case studies and to provide a model to enable future designers to use traditional cultural products, patterns and processes as new, contemporary products, patterns and processes. Apart from journal papers the outcomes will include a book consisting of case studies and an explanation and discussion of the proposed model.