本課程主要以工業設計的觀點探討公共環境中各種與使用者相關的設施或設備之設計，教學目標乃是希望引導學生主動關心與自身生活息息相關的公共事物，並能運用工業設計領域所學的設計思維去探索與思考公共環境中的設計問題，且進一步針對問題提出個人論述或改善方案。希冀透過本課程的學習，能培養工業設計領域學生未來投入與公共設計相關工作的意願，使現今仍屬建築、景觀、公共行政領域專家主導的公共設計能獲得更多元化的設計能量，為社會多數使用者提供高品質的設計服務。

This course mainly discusses the design of various user-related facilities or equipment in public environments from the perspective of industrial design. The teaching goal is to guide students to actively care about public things that are closely related to their own lives, and to use the design thinking learned in the field of industrial design to explore and think about design issues in public environments, and to further propose personal discussions or improvement plans for the problems. It is hoped that through the study of this course, students in the field of industrial design will be able to cultivate their willingness to engage in public design-related work in the future, so that public design, which is still dominated by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape, and public administration, can obtain more diversified design energy and provide high-quality design services to the majority of users in society.

設計的本質是服務眾多使用者的需求，然而當代設計專業知能卻多數用以服務企業獲取經濟利益，忽略了許多社會公益的問題。因此，本課程盼能以社會設計的概念出發，探討公共環境中各種與使用者相關之設施或設備設計案例，思辨工業設計的專業知能如何介入公共環境，如何運用設計力改善不特定多數使用者在公共場域遭遇的生活議題，進而培養自我對公共事務的人文關懷，建立對公共設計的概念與主張。

The essence of design is to serve the needs of many users. However, contemporary design expertise is mostly used to serve enterprises to obtain economic benefits, ignoring many social welfare issues. Therefore, this course hopes to start from the concept of social design, explore various user-related facilities or equipment design cases in the public environment, think about how the professional knowledge of industrial design can intervene in the public environment, and how to use design power to improve the life issues encountered by an unspecified majority of users in public places, and then cultivate one's own humanistic care for public affairs and establish concepts and opinions on public design.

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