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In today’s globalized marketplace, with ubiquity across designed products, individuals in diverse cultures around the globe may be found carrying the same iPhones and wearing the same Nike sneakers. Tonya Sweet—artist, designer, and lecturer in the Department of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand—will address this pervasion in her talk “Culturally Reflective Design: Strategies for the Development of Culture-Specific Products.”
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Culturally Reflective Design:
Educational Strategies for the Development of Culture-Specific Products
School of Architecture + Design Victoria University of Wellington New ZealandCollege of Architecture, Art + Design American University of Sharjah United Arab Emirates
Tonya Sweet
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
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Wudhu It is the Islamic procedure for washing parts of the body using water often in preparation for formal prayers (Salah) or .when handling the Holy Quran It has always been said to me that while performing the Wudu, one’s daily sins areerased and are “washed away”. For exam- ple while I am rinsing my mouth, my mouth will be cleansed from whatever wrong/sinful things I have said by the performance of the Wudu. Similarly while washing my hands, whatever wrong actions I have performed during the day will be “washed away” by the water. This is why the Wudu is considered a ritual that would prepare the Muslims for prayersboth through mental and physical cleanli-ness
Ablution washing areas in public mosques usually provide heavy stone stools for people to sit on while performing the Wudhu. Although it is at a public setting, each person perfroms their ritualindividually
Inspirational Concrete Forms
Water texture
Fountain at The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Designed by I.M. Pei. The museum was influenced by islamic patterns and form yetit still had a contemporary and modern feel to it
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Tonya Sweet Culturally Reflective Design
Questions:
Can contemporary design support and sustain culture?
Can design assist in the development of newly defined, contemporary cultural identities?
In our increasingly globalized world, should designers create contemporary design outcomes that allow for greater cultural specificity?
Thank you.
