主讲人介绍：
大卫·格罗斯曼是国际设计联合会（ICoD）的前任主席，目前担任ICoD设计倡导项目协调员，同时兼任位于中国青岛清华大学艺术与科学研究院的TASA-ICoD国际设计教育实验室的共同主任。该实验室专注于从不同视角研究“设计”、“设计品”、“设计过程”、“设计师”和设计历史，特别是涉及“专业化”的相关问题。大卫坚持认为设计必须考虑整个人类历史，而不仅仅是根据当前的消费模式。因此，设计的能力是一种决定性的人类倾向；它是普遍的而非西方的；主要在社会和文化上产生影响，而不仅限于市场导向。如果设计师是专业人士——这是一个关键问题——那就意味着有道德义务，并需要一个共同体结构。
Defining Design, Designs, Designing and Designers in the 21st Century
David Grossman is a former President of the International Council of Design and is currently ICoD's Design Advocacy Projects Coordinator. He is the Co-Director of the TASA-ICoD International Design Education Laboratory in Qingdao, China. The Laboratory focuses on alternative views of "design", "designs", "designing", "designers" and Design History and in particular questions relating to "professionalism".
David maintains that design must be considered in terms of the entirety of human history and not only in terms of a current consumption-based model. Thus, the capacity to design is a defining human propensity; universal - not Western; primarily social and cultural in impact - not only market-oriented. If designers are professionals - and that is a crucial question - that implies ethical obligations and requires a community structure.
