We are all Designers

“我们都是设计师”自20世纪50年代以来，我们通常认为的设计活动在复杂性和范围上都在不断增加。设计实践一直在不断扩大，现在从我们日常使用的物体的细节延伸到城市，景观，国家，文化，身体，基因，自然，政治制度，我们生产食物的方式，到我们旅行，建造汽车或房屋和克隆羊的方式（Latour, 2008）。随着设计活动的加速进入21世纪，很明显，越来越多的从业者认为他们的方法植根于设计实践，或者正在使用可以被认为是设计师的方法（Cross, 2006）。同样清楚的是，设计正在扩展其学科、概念、理论和方法的边界，以涵盖更广泛的学科、活动和实践形式。近年来，我们目睹了“业余设计师”这一迅速增长的现象，其中包括蛋糕师、裁缝、diy者、产品黑客和创意爱好者。几位著名的设计理论家认为，这可能是因为“我们都是设计师”。在他们看来，我们操纵环境是为了更好地满足我们的需要。我们选择拥有什么东西，让什么东西在我们身边……我们建造、购买、安排和重组，所有这些都是设计的一种形式（Lawson, 2005; Norman, 2005; Papanek, 1985）。正是考虑到这一扩展，本研究网络项目旨在开始绘制非设计师和设计师之间社区和实践之间复杂的相互联系关系的过程。所谓“非设计师”，我们指的是没有受过正规学术教育或设计培训的人。这将包括，例如，经济学家，人类学家，计算机科学家和“设计师”，我们指的是接受过正规学术教育或设计培训的个人，如平面设计师，工业设计师，时装设计师和室内设计师。这个研究网络项目的目的是探索和激发围绕新兴形式的设计实践的新辩论，这些设计实践经常跨越、超越和改变传统的学科、概念、理论、方法和文化界限。“我们都是设计师”研究网络项目希望探索这些创造性实践的肥沃新领域，是多机构的，包括创造性和创新的生产和创业方法。据设想，这个研究网络项目将涉及一些参与者，他们自己在工作中经常跨越、超越和改变既定的和传统的学科界限。该研究网络将举办3场密集的研讨会活动[1]。探索,2。创建、3。这将促进非设计师和设计师之间围绕新兴设计实践形式的辩论，启动社区与非设计师和设计师实践之间相互联系关系的定性和定量映射，并为公众和其他利益相关者在当代设计实践中提供更多互动的丰富论坛。在三个工作坊结束时，参与者将制作一些团体和个人的2D/3D地图，描述新兴的创造性实践形式。这些地图将说明新兴的学科形式，以及“丰富”创意领域的边界和边缘，这些领域可能突出未来创意实践的潜在领域。主要研究人员还将制作一份研究网络项目的结束报告以及几篇期刊和会议论文。

'We are all Designers'The activity we commonly recognise as design has increased both in terms of its complexity and its reach on a continual basis since the 1950's. Design practice has been expanding continuously and now extends from the details of objects that we use on a day-to-day basis to cities, landscapes, nations, cultures, bodies, genes, nature, political systems, the way we produce food, to the way we travel, build cars or houses and clone sheep (Latour, 2008). With accelerated design activity into the 21st century, it is clear that an increasing number of practitioners across a large and diverse range of disciplines regard their methods as rooted in design practice or are using methods that could be considered designerly (Cross, 2006). It is equally clear that design is expanding its disciplinary, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological borders to encompass ever-wider disciplines, activities and forms of practice.In recent years we have witnessed a rapidly growing phenomenon in 'amateur designers' that includes cake bakers, dressmakers, DIYers, product hackers, and creative hobbyists. Several notable design theorists suggest that this may be because 'We are all Designers' at heart. In their opinion, we manipulate the environment, the better to serve our needs...we select what items to own, which to have around us...we build, buy, arrange, and restructure and all of this is a form of design (Lawson, 2005; Norman, 2005; Papanek, 1985).It is with this expansion in mind that this Research Networking Project aims to begin the process of mapping the complex inter-connected relationships between communities and practices of non-designers and designers. By 'non-designers' we mean individuals that have had no formal academic education or training in design. This would include, for example, economists, anthropologists, and computer scientists and by 'designers' we mean individuals that have received formal academic education or training in design such as graphic designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, and interior designers. The aim of this Research Network Project is to explore and stimulate new debate around emerging forms of design practice that routinely traverse, transcend and transfigure conventional disciplinary, conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and cultural boundaries. The 'We are all Designers' Research Network Project wishes to explore these fertile new terrains of creative practice, be multi-institutional and include creative and innovative approaches of production and entrepreneurship. It is envisaged that this Research Network Project will involve a number of participants that are themselves routinely traversing, transcending and transfiguring well-established and conventional disciplinary boundaries in their work. This research network will host 3 intensive workshop events [1. Exploration, 2. Creation, 3. Reflection] that will facilitate debate amongst non-designers and designers around emerging forms of design practice, initiate both qualitative and quantitative mappings of the inter-connected relationships between communities and practices of non-designers and designers, and provide a rich forum for greater interaction amongst the public and other stakeholders in contemporary design practice. At the end of the three workshops, the participants will have produced a number of group and individual 2D/3D maps that describe emerging forms of creative practice. These maps will illustrate emergent forms of disciplinarity, and boundaries and edges of 'rich' creative territories that may highlight potential areas of future creative practice. The principal investigators will also produce an end of Research Network Project report as well as several journal and conference papers.