확장된 범위의 생태운동으로서 디자인 행동주의 연구: 2000년대 이후 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

Cultural and artistic activism has been consistently sought after amid the flow of modernist art in the 20th century since the beginning of the Avant-Garde Movement. Following the emergence of a consumption-centric society, however, research on the design activism practice movement has shown a tendency of remaining at a relatively marginal level. This study set out to investigate relations between ecological philosophy and design activism with a focus on the cases of expanded ecological movements connoting the social practice tendencies of designers since the 2000s. The study first examines the broad categories of ecology and deals with ecological philosophy in an expanded sense that addressed the imbalance issues among human beings, organisms, and natural environments with a focus on Félix Guattari's social ecology. Secondly, the study looks into relations between design and activism, its origins and developments, then defines design activism as a movement in which designers made active interventions in social issues in a democratic political system as subjects since the 2000s. Finally, the study examines the three cases of design activism as an expanded ecological movement since the 2000s with a focus on the ecological philosophy covered and discourses that could be discussed in it. The findings demonstrate that ecological movements are a practice to discuss imbalance among all living things rather than a movement to remain at the environmental protection level. The study checks the possibilities of design activism as a further expanded ecological movement in the viewpoint of looking at the area of ecological philosophy and that of design in an integrated manner and, at the same time, considers the directionality of an ecological movement that designers would develop in a self-directed way, thus holding its significance.