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Design Futures

Xingjian Rong

Xingjian Rong

Design, games, interaction, future methodology


Field

Product, design, VR, Interventional Experience, Design methodology research, User research


Education Background

Design Future, MA, Royal College of Art, 2019-2021

Industrial Design, BA, Hebei University of Technology 2015-2019


Awards

A Design Award 2020

Degree Details

School of Design

Design Futures
Xingjian Rong

Xingjian focuses on the impact of world differentiation on design after key nodes, and is currently preparing for the publication of "Parallel Design" with Ziyue


He has a keen insight into all social events and uses this to discover that these events change the direction of social thought.


In the future, we will have a rigorous and conservative reasoning attitude, and will conduct logical and rigorous research when designing.


Our technological trend
Our technological trend
Multiple parallel futures under the technology node
Multiple parallel futures under the technology node

This hypothesis is used to explain why we are always unable to accurately predict the future. The reason is that the development of human technology is not linear, but ladder-like. Our predictions in history, We are always developing along with our existing technology, so in certain periods, this prediction can be very accurate (2001 Space Odyssey), but when we predict the future at a position critical to the technological singularity, our The predicted and actual events are very likely to be completely different, and we are now at the forefront of a technological singularity

HAPPINESS — Personal characteristics are distinguished from the dissolution of machine characteristics, and the defined happiness
Inhaler
Inhaler
UNHAPPINESS — Policy is subject to the self-proclaimed definition of personal characteristics and happiness, and does our society really need rapid progress?
Inhaler Pack
Inhaler Pack
Standardized production process
Standardized production process
Poster
Poster

The project tells about the future prediction under the political node based on the theory of technology node.

The first one tells how in a highly internalized future, the lives of workers will be defined by capital

The second is about the mode of our life possibility after reflecting on the behavior of excessive involution itself

The ironic history will be staged over and over again in a repetitive political future

How does politics affect products in different contexts

Game Trailer — Feel the project narrative by allowing players to experience an immersive experience

The promise of modernity to humans has become a beautiful lie. Progressive science and technology have brought us the gospel in terms of physical attributes, and personal time sovereignty has been deprived of them at the same time. This problem constitutes a "new alienation."

We have to rethink progressivism and the individual state in this social process

This project aims to state the new social normality that we are about to or are evolving

Including 1. The birth and change of new alienation

2. Accelerationism caused by the social relations we have to couple to each other

3. The necessity of accelerationism, do we need to accelerate progress

Medium:

Virtual Reality

This project describes in detail, in the context of a highly consumerized society, in which form the concept of products will be changed by capital, all positives can be negative, all negatives can be positive, and all products will provide you with a Happiness, and this kind of happiness you think is what capital wants you to think.