Balancing authenticity and creativity: a VR system design for assisting ceramic creation
Haoxiang Fang Fang, Baosheng Wang, Qing Liang · Academia Press eBooks · 2023
Culture-based product designers are facing the challenge of balancing authenticity and creativity: designers need to maintain tradition in materials, craftsmanship and cultural factors, while product design values innovation in form, function and user experience, which requires both indigenous knowledge and creative design methods.This paper describes our attempt to develop a VR system to help culture-based product designers learn indigenous knowledge and translate it into ceramic creation.The system includes a ceramic repository module, a design case library module, and a rapid prototyping module.The effectiveness of the VR system was assessed through a design workshop where eight participants were randomly divided into two groups, one working with the VR system and the other working with paper-based approach.Experts scored their design work by assessing authenticity through appearance, craftsmanship and culture, and creativity through aesthetics, technology and uses.Results showed that the VR group had a better general performance, specifically in terms of culture, and were more open to creative experimentation in terms of technology and uses.