(Ebook) Embracing today’s Economic and Technological Reality: What It Means for Design Professionals by Dr. YASEMIN INCE GUNEY Faculty of Architecture, Balıkesir University, Balıkesir, Turkey E mail: [email protected] ISBN 9780719041297, 0719041295

(Ebook) Embracing today’s Economic and Technological Reality: What It Means for Design Professionals by Dr. YASEMIN INCE GUNEY Faculty of Architecture, Balıkesir University, Balıkesir, Turkey E mail: [email protected] ISBN 9780719041297, 0719041295

History has shown that technological advancements alter the way we produce,
exchange, protect, consume and save all kinds of goods. The First Industrial
Revolution, for example, has been named as such since it indeed revolutionized
everything related to daily living including art, culture, economy and politics.
History has also showed that most cultural actors are reluctant to embrace
advanced technology at first as they might see it as taking away something at
the core of humanity. Arts and Crafts movement for example, grew out of a
concern for the effects of industrialization on design, on traditional skills and
on the lives of ordinary people. Today, economists, scientists and policy makers
in developing countries are talking about the coming of the fourth industrial
revolution and the Second Machine Age, that not only will redefine the way
humans live their daily life but also the very definition of human beings. The
aim of this study is to discuss the effects of these changes on theoretical and
practical issues related to design professionals and education, including
advanced technologies available and social and cultural implications of their
use. The paper will argue that today’s economic and technological reality will
alter the design profession from its education to its implementation.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018), 2(3), 107-111.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4725