On The Technology Design In The Context

With the rapid development, technology brings us hope, convenience, and a series of side effects. Because of the status and role of technology, the investigation can not only stay on the periphery, which does not contribute to the harmonious development of technology and human. From the practical context, technology design should concern the important influence of multi-factor, the dynamic mechanism and its evolution in the process, the role of the changing context, so this study has important theoretical and practical significance.From the practical context view, technology design is one way of the relationship between man and nature. If we want to analyses the technology design clearly, which need the analysis of technical design itself. In order to meet our needs, technology design which base on the law of nature, matter, energy and information, is a new reasonable and creative activity, which is to create, control, apply, alter the systems of technology artifact. In practice, technology design requires technical experience, social test, and obtains new information from the test and experience, improves the design from the constant trial and error. Even in the process of diffusion and application, it also needs to re-design according to specific social context and user requirements.From the development process of technology design, if we magnify the revolution stages, you will find it’s not so revolutionary, but more evolutionary. The reasons why we are able to analyze technology design from the evolutionary point of view are the similarities of inheritance and development between technology design and biological evolution. Inheritance refers to the generation of the structure and function in a certain similarity with their parents. As biological evolution, the evolutionary direction of technology design is multidimensional, and is determined by the environment, and the direction is the complexity of structure, the composites of function, and the ability of adapting to environment. From the evolutionary view, technology design dose not deny the role of designer. On the contrary, because of the role of designer, the evolution of technology design is able to set up. On the specific technology designs, the leading role of designer is obvious, but on the technology design itself, evolution is the development style.The existence of technology design needs specific natural and social conditions, so context is the actual fields of technology. However, the content of context is abundant, including objective factors of time and space, social, political, economic, cultural and other factors, but also the individual temperament, personality, psychology and other subjective factors. In technical design process, context is the external field of technology design. Technology design is to meet the needs of specific context, the essence belongs to adapt to the specific context. The superior technology designs are often those which can adapt to context, not just depend on the technical superiority and blind support programs. From the context view, we can find the nature and operation rules of technology design, because context reveals the nature and laws of technological development.Since the Industrial Revolution, technology design acts as a means of profitable business and people’s desire, induces the deformity concept of happiness and lifestyle, and becomes the helper of unsustainable development. In the current context of sustainable development, technology design needs to make adjustments and assume its role. Fundamentally, it should be change the "consumer-oriented" and "profit-oriented" of technology design to "people-oriented" and "nature-based", towards sustainable technology design. The aim of sustainable technology design is not artifact, but to form sustainable technology solutions to meet the specific needs and reduce the consumption of resources and the eco-environment. Sustainable technology design is not only the design of artifact and the use environment, but also the design of lifestyle. In the treatment of "sustainable", designers should get out of the way of technical and engineering thinking. Spreading the sustainable values, this involves not only the design form, design method, but also the fundamental change and profound historical background in design concept.