As the new buzzword for the professions, 设计已经不仅仅是一个人在一个角色中完成的任务,而且现在已经被视为一种商业的哲学方法, politics, and even geopolitical negotiation. Don Norman’s new book, Design for a Better World, 认为设计是为全球合作作出更大更有效努力的一种手段. 甚至像IBM这样的公司也在全国主要城市开设了设计实验室,将设计融入其业务创新的核心. 现在,每个公司都在寻找学习型设计师来领导培训,并协调他们的努力,以告知和教育他们的员工. In short, 设计已经成为一种包罗万象的观点,即如何更好地完成一项可能被视为战略的活动, visioning, or goal setting. Mike Monteiro, principal for design agency Mule Design, 提倡一种更实用的方法,将设计描述为一种可支付的技能. 虽然许多人可能认为设计只是简单的图形布局,甚至是数字开发, Monteiro suggests that designers are primarily problem solvers, somewhat like engineers but work with people, places, and ideas, not mass, volume, and tensile strength.
In the Geneva College Communication Design program, bwin体育注意到,在这个更大的行业对话中,有一个共同点指向了一个单靠艺术工艺无法回答的问题. The question, what is art for? bwin体育没有提供一个关于这个问题在过去的时代是如何解决的冗长历史(因为你可能会选修人文学科103),bwin体育提出了一个长期存在于圣经中的答案. Francis Schaeffer’s wife, Edith Schaeffer develops this theme in her book, The Hidden Art of Homemaking, 指的是上帝创造万物的行为,以及他随后为人类种植一座花园的行为,作为人类效仿造物主的命令. 亚当被告知要“生养众多”,参与上帝已经开始的事情. 反对善恶树的命令表明,上帝要亚当做善事. 对自己有好处,对别人有好处,在很多方面对任何可能遇到他们的人都有好处. God had given him an example, 向他展示了动物生命多样性的美好,以及上帝创造夏娃时所显示的美好. 这些美好的事物,每一样都补充了先前的美好,并增加了它的美好, we might even say artfully offered a good in itself, a good which inspired contemplation, and therefore bore better. Adam saw Eve and recited a poem, 一首诗捕捉了一种解脱的孤独和一种希望无止境的亲密关系.
所有这些上帝的作为所包含的善良,也显示了对善良的多感官和多物质特征的明确关注. Good things can be felt, tasted, seen, heard and smelled. bwin体育的每一种感官都揭示了上帝创造的美好事物,也提供了bwin体育自己努力创造美好事物的途径, good to all the senses. 帮助bwin体育的学生看到上帝所创造的围绕在bwin体育周围的满溢的美好, bwin体育的目标是帮助他们看到,艺术行为增加了上帝创造的美好,并旨在激发更好的东西. As students of communication and design, we aspire to understand that what God has created is good, and because we are made to be like Him, bwin体育可以把已经好的东西重塑成另一件让别人高兴的好东西.
对传播学的研究有助于bwin体育理解如何解释什么是好的. 设计为如何将一种好转化为另一种好提供了建议, or to all the senses that God has given. 在一个所有感官体验都因虚拟和人工复制品而贬值的时代, our task could be no less urgent. 世界正在努力用虚拟替代品取代所有真实的人类体验,这应该标志着回归多感官的需要, multi-material approach to life. 否则会降低人类经验的丰富性,也会破坏一首美丽交响曲中所蕴含的喜悦, a cozy quilt, and a simply delicious piece of toast with jam.
In this way, our program in Communication Design exhibits a straightforward agenda. bwin体育的目标是通过美术实践的积极参与,帮助学生更好地了解上帝创造的世界. However, 除了这些常见的干预之外,还有与他人分享这些艺术成果的紧迫性. And because we aim to share them with others, we begin the work first and foremost for others, or more aptly, for our neighbors.
Some might ask, 在一个没有人能靠绘画谋生的时代,美术不是一件徒劳的事吗, sculpting, and drawing? 除此之外,到目前为止,bwin体育所有的毕业生都没有发现这一点,而是开始用他们所学到的东西为他人服务, 圣经的证据给bwin体育更大的信心,就是基督呼召bwin体育离弃世俗的愚拙. As it is written in 1 Corinthians 3:18-19,
"Let no one deceive himself. 你们中间若有人在年龄以为自己有智慧,倒不如变作愚拙,好成为有智慧的. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.”
We must not be deceived. 这个世界扭曲了艺术的努力,使其违背了善,使美变得丑陋,但这不应该阻止bwin体育回应上帝的召唤, taking what He created and designing good things. For we know that such goodness, whether it be the offering of a well-made meal, a carefully composed poem, 或者一幅值得持续沉思的画,传达了创造bwin体育的上帝的辉煌和荣耀. If the Lord has gifted you, or someone you know, with artistic talent, you might mention that in our own humble way, bwin体育的传播设计课程提供了一个发展和磨练这些才能的地方,为基督和这个国家服务.
Soli Deo Gloria
Dr. Joel Ward, Associate Professor of Communication, Geneva College
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Jan 30, 2024