| Abstract |
| As movements of `convergence` are prevailing in various fields of society, interests in convergence increases even in the field of design. Because design has been developed in close connections with art, technology and industry, however, the convergence should be reinterpreted, unlike other fields. In this current paper, the convergence are explored in terms of historical, social and conceptual aspects. This work showed that the convergence movements in academic fields was facilitated by the formation of cognitive sciences induced by the development of computer sciences, and that social diffusion of convergence movements was based on significants changes in society induced by development of information technology such as advanced network system. It implies that in the contemporary society, which has the characteristics of border-crossing, decentration, displacement and hybrid, the convergence can not be interpreted only in terms of convergence itself or the outcomes of convergence. Rather, we should focus on other characteristics of converged outcomes such as potentialities and influences that convergence gives rise to new social and cultural connections.
Seen from this point of view, convergence design was defined as `design activities that process of convergence is strongly influence on characteristics of the outcomes, and these have characteristic ways of potentiality which brings social and cultural changes by giving impetus to the new networking and condivergence progress.` Being focused on interactions between converged outcomes and society and culture, the concept of `Inter-hybrid design` were suggested. |
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| Key Words |
| 융합, 혼성, 잡종사회, convergence, hybrid, heterotopic society |
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