Design Tendency
創作趨勢研究

This course introduces recent trends in art and performance theory while also focusing on the practical application of these concepts. During the semester, students generate their original self-comprehension of their own creation or performance about an issue, event, person, or historical topic of their own choosing. They construct the script using a variety of nonfiction sources including autobiographies, diaries, textbooks, interviews, and newspaper articles. This course challenges students to initiate an intuitive search of him/her-self and to consider the essence of creation as they embody their thoughts, feeling, and daily life events. Students learn basic interdisciplinary fields research methodologies and intuitive ways of self-interpretation in the class, encouraging them to critically examine the power dynamics implicit and impact of introspection in all extraneous and internal factors (such as social and psychological exchanges). The semester ends with each student representing a fully creation of costume or animation (for both section of fashion design and communications design) and a group public exhibition which integrates all the students’ final works.

本課程主要幫助研究生以一個初學者的心態和衝動重新去摸索自我，藉由對自己影響深遠的設計師、藝術家、風格、派別、或是多元創作領域加以深入研究探討，以分析自身的感動與其關連性。此外，透過課堂評圖與互動，本課程將幫助學生訓練對自我作品認知的文字與語言陳述，以及創作過程的紀錄，培養學生個人對人文創作的敏銳度以及對事物的多重、複合感受，其中也包含直覺性與思考性等不同程度上的反省與詮釋，以建立日後在創作論文寫作與作品發想、實驗、階段完成、修正、再實驗、再調整等過程之基礎。