Abstract
Since the Industrial Revolution (IR), science and technology have advanced at an ever-accelerating rate. In a mere 250 years since IR, advances in science and technology have changed nearly all aspects of humanity. Before IR, people and animals were used as the primary source of power and energy. After IR, steam engines and other power sources replaced human and animal power, which ultimately changed the economic and political structure of many nations and the world. Now, the world is undergoing socio-economic transformation due to information technology and will soon enter the age of biological revolution. These and other advances in science and technology are likely to accelerate, creating both opportunities and some unanticipated risks to humanity. To ascertain that the technological changes result in positive outcomes for humanity and society, more research in humanities and social sciences is needed so as to complement the advances being made in natural sciences and technology. The question raised in this paper is: “Can Axiomatic Design and design thinking be applied in the fields of humanities and social sciences so as to create imaginative societal solutions in the technology era?” Design examples are given that show how AD can be applied in non-technical fields.
Highlights
The life of people began to change because of the emergence of science and technology
The basic questions pursued in this paper are: “can we establish rational policies in a socio-economic arena based on Axiomatic Design?” “Can we design socio-economicpolitical systems and policies based on the design axioms and avoid many problems in the socio-economic political arena we seem to encounter for lack of reliable and absolute measures of correctness or satisfaction?” “Can we avoid many of the past mistakes that were often initiated because irrational arguments of a few were sold to the masses by identifying bad ideas prior to their implementation?” This paper explores possible applications of design axioms in non-technical areas: design and administration of universities, and designing a unit of a government agency, and in controlling the speed of money circulation
The Korean government adopted the recommendations made based on these functional requirements (FRs) and design parameters (DPs)
Summary
The life of people began to change because of the emergence of science and technology. The motivation for writing this paper is based on the observation, as stated earlier, that the advances in and development of science and technology during the past three centuries have been unprecedented and that their pace of progress may accelerate faster in the future, and that there is no guarantee that some of these advances will not be misused or wrongly applied, resulting in irreparable damages to humanity and the global environment. To prevent such an event from happening, we need to accelerate further progress in humanities and social sciences. We explore the applicability of Axiomatic Design (AD) in non-technical fields
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