From “Idyllic” to “Living Space”—Turning “Art Work” into “Interior Design”

Abstract

“Idyllic”, which literally means a quality suggestive of the poetic and picturesque, is used as the criterion with which to evaluate a Chinese painting. For living space, the product should also fit into a context of living environment and meet user requirements. Idyllic describes the arts striving toward perfection, beauty and refinement in all aspects of life. Transforming “idyllic” into “living space” involves more than considering the interior design itself. It remains a challenge to represent use contexts and user needs in a way that designers with technical backgrounds are able to make direct use of them. When designing “arts” into “business”, we need a better understanding of human-art interaction not just for taking part in the humanity context, but also for developing the interactive experience of arts. Therefore, a general framework is proposed for interior design that applies to representing human-art interactions and translating aesthetics into user requirements in an interior design case. The intended purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for examining the way designers interact across the art and interactive experiences of users in the design process.