An investigation of the local industrial design industry in China: A micro view
Keywords:
Anonymous history, Local industrial design industry, Small and micro enterprises, Consumers, UsersAbstract
The research on the development of the industrial design industry is of great academic value and historical significance in design studies. Based on the criticism of the heroic approach, this study investigates the local industrial design industry in Sichuan Province, China, from the perspective of anonymous history. It aims to understand better the details of the development of the industrial design industry in Sichuan and encourage further research on the local industrial design industry in China from a micro view. The study explores the grassroots activities of the industrial design industry in Sichuan through qualitative research methods such as field research, interviews, and questionnaires and examines the selected research objects by means of phenomenological depiction and analysis. This approach reveals some meaningful characteristics of the design and consumption ends of the local industrial design industry at the micro level. It concludes that many aspects of the anonymous part of the local industrial design industry remain untouched, and further investigation is needed to shed light on them.
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