Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1086/723722

Weihong Bao

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Abstract

In this article, I explore the promise and pitfalls of medium as environment by tracking the twin developments of environmental thinking and set design in China, considering it as a problematic of epistemology, technology, and aesthetics. I treat huanjing (environment) as a neologism, a new episteme, a dispositif, and a mode of power, taking set design as the companion medium that reconnects art and technology, aesthetics and politics. Reconceptualizing set, design, and environment at the intersection of industrial design and progressive education, I focus on modernist and propagandistic practice of set design in China in the 1930s and ’40s, moving from set design in film and theater to the design and practice of human/environment that constitutes the landscape of the social. How these aesthetic and technical experiments rework the social will help us reconfigure the human in the reassemblage of our medium/environment complex.

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集设计思维与人的艺术

在这篇文章中，我通过追踪环境思维和场景设计在中国的双重发展，探讨媒介作为环境的希望和陷阱，将其视为一个认识论、技术和美学的问题。我将“环景”(environment)视为一种新名词、一种新认知、一种配置、一种权力模式，并将布景设计作为重新连接艺术与技术、美学与政治的伴生媒介。在工业设计和进步教育的交叉点重新定义场景、设计和环境，我关注20世纪30年代和40年代中国场景设计的现代主义和宣传实践，从电影和戏剧的场景设计转向构成社会景观的人类/环境的设计和实践。这些美学和技术实验如何重塑社会将帮助我们在重新组合我们的媒介/环境复合体中重新配置人类。

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期刊介绍： Critical Inquiry has published the best critical thought in the arts and humanities since 1974. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent critics, scholars, and artists on a wide variety of issues central to contemporary criticism and culture. In CI new ideas and reconsideration of those traditional in criticism and culture are granted a voice. The wide interdisciplinary focus creates surprising juxtapositions and linkages of concepts, offering new grounds for theoretical debate. In CI, authors entertain and challenge while illuminating such issues as improvisations, the life of things, Flaubert, and early modern women"s writing.