设计价值问题探讨“设计价值是什么”、“设计为了什么”，设计价值的研究则关注设计的价值“为何是”、“如何是”。作为聚焦设计价值演进的研究，本文是分析与解释设计价值“因何而发展变化”、“如何发展变化”的研究。通过不断地思辨认识观念、挖掘底层规律，设计在哲学层面的追问能使各个时代的设计实践获得清晰的观念指引与良善的价值意义。中国特色社会主义进入新时代，当代中国设计价值的基础理论也需要回顾历史，总结规律，面向未来创新发展。 首先，通过将设计的价值与人的需求层次联系起来，本文认为设计价值在内涵维度上是相对稳定的，此为设计价值的“不变”。随着各个时代社会的外部环境发生变化，人的需求重心也不断改变，设计价值彰显的各个维度也因此而交替主导，整体呈现曲进上升趋势，此为设计价值的“演变”。其次，本文以“创造者-创造物-需求者”3个演进要素构成的价值关系链模型来解构设计的一般价值，通过提取演进要素的变化过程总结了设计价值历时性的时代特点并归纳了中外差异。之后，结合历时性与共时性的双重分析，本文总结了形成不同“时代”的6个底层条件（社会存在与社会意识），归纳了含有7个因素的影响因素框架（PEST+NAR），总结了“底层条件、影响因素、演进要素、外延表现”之间的影响方式，列举了时代性演进的若干代表路径，从而构建了指导设计价值时代性演进研究的系统观与一套研究方法。最后，本文对新时代语境中的中国设计价值创新展开探讨，以创造者-创造物-需求者-外部环境视角分析了当代中国设计的时代使命，探索了面向未来的中国设计价值新特征（创造性、预见性、合意性），并展望了设计的未来意义。本文通过文献研究、跨学科研究、多案例分析，形成了以“横纵结合、学科交叉、承认差异、抓住核心”为策略，以历史唯物主义基本原理与设计价值研究方法论为基础的“关键设计事件”分析法。跳跃性地选取具有时代特点的设计事件，系统性地总结各种因素、要素对设计价值演进的影响方式，使得本文既构建了设计价值持续演进的传承脉络，又形成了设计价值多元互动的发展系统。本研究从设计价值时代性演进的视角深化了对人类造物与设计演进历程的理解，在对象解构、研究策略、分析方法、成果形式四个方面具有较大创新，为研究设计价值等设计学抽象概念提供了可借鉴的研究思路与研究方法。
The question of the value of design discusses "what" and "for what", while the research of the value of design focuses on "why" and "how". Therefore, as a research work focusing on the evolution of the value of design, this thesis analyzes and explains why and how the value of design develops and changes. Through continuous understanding of various concepts and discovering the underlying laws, the philosophical inquiry of design can enable the design practice of each era to obtain clear conceptual guidance and good value meaning. As the socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the fundamental theories of the value of design in contemporary China also need to review history, summarize the laws, and develop innovatively for the future.First of all, by connecting the value of design with the hierarchy of human needs, this thesis believes the value of design is relatively stable in its connotation dimensions, which is the "unchanged" value of design. With the changes in the social external environment in each era, the focus of human needs has also continued to change. As a result, the various dimensions of design value alternately dominate, and the overall trend is spiraling upward. This is the "evolutionary" value of design. Secondly, the value of design is deconstructed with a value-relation-chain model composed of three evolution elements, which are the creator, the created, and the demander. Then the diachronic evolution phenomenon of design value is analyzed by establishing a relationship system between evolution elements and external factors, and the macro process of its evolution and the differences between China and foreign countries is summarized. After that, combined with the diachronic analysis and synchronic analysis, six underlying conditions (social existence and social consciousness) that forming different eras of the value of design are derived, and an influencing factor framework that contains seven factors (PEST+NAR) is constructed. Also, the ways of influence among underlying conditions, influencing factors, and evolution elements are summarized, and the representative paths of the epochal evolution of design value are listed. Accordingly, a systematic perspective and a set of research methods are formed to guide the research on the epochal evolution of the value of design. Finally, this thesis discusses value innovation of Chinese design in the context of this new era, analyzes the mission of contemporary Chinese design from the perspective of creator-created-demander-external environment, explores the new characteristics of Chinese design value facing the future (creativity, predictability, desirability), and looks forward to the future meaning of design.Through the process of literature research, interdisciplinary inquiry and multiple-case studies, a "critical design event" analysis method is formed based on the basic principles of historical materialism and design value research methodology, with the strategy of “diachronic and synchronic integration, interdisciplinary process, difference recognition, and core factor extraction”. By selecting design events with the characteristics of different times and summarizing the impact of various factors to the design value evolution in detail, this thesis not only constructs the inheritance of the continuous evolution of the value of design, but also explains its multi-interactive development system.Overall, this research work deepens the understanding of human creation and the evolution of design from a perspective on the epochal evolution of the value of design, with great innovations on the following four aspects: object deconstruction, research strategy, analytic method, and results form. It provides a valuable reference on both research ideas and research methods for studying on the value of design and other abstract concepts in the design discipline.
