Rehabilitate Sustain from Earth to Sea: A Design Study on Interplaying Biosocial Sculpture In-Between the Intertidal Zone

Obey the traditional idea of "Tian-Fu Di-Zai" (The Heaven Overspreads and Earth Sustains All) in Chinese culture, this monography focuses on "Rise above both Self and Matters" of Taoist by "Rehabilitate Sustain from Earth to Sea". It cumulated subtly into consciousness of release-and protect lives. The motive of teapot craft design originated from unconsciously kill-and-persecute to environ-ecology by human self-centeredness since the Anthropocene. Sustainability become one of the most thematic of recent artistic creation, comparing to black-faced spoonbill pottery as one of the themes in this thesis, it is found that ecology is mostly an expression of creative skills in earlier artists' works than the social responsibility not shown, although. Thus, this paper precipitate-and-transform from "The Identity about the Matter and Me" firstly, then represent the (Bio)Social Sculpture among human and wildlife in the intertidal ecosystem by "Sociological Imagination". Aquatic system intertwining mountains, creeks, lakes, rivers into sea, which continued those real stories like starved Buffalos of cold highland, Bear strayed into boar trap, Leopard cat road killed, Elephant died of pineapple bomb, Whale fall organism and wisdom of Octopus. That constituted a discourse subjects of ceramic art compounded by such endless tragedies under the high and low tides. In the "Di-Zai" (Earth Sustain) series, which succeeding created 10 items of works and named respectively as: (1) Break off the shell; (2) Survival of the fittest; (3) Mimicry and camouflage; (4) Gaze with longing eyes; (5) Habitat restoration; (6) Fight for the foods with human; (7) Community symbiosis; (8) At the mercy of nature; (9) Epimeletic incubation, and; (10) Flight of ideas, etc. Another "Hai-Han" (Sea Rehabilitate) series of 10 items, respectively named: (1) Deep-sea submergence; (2) Benthic organisms; (3) Pandora's box, origin of species; (4) Semi-biological mug; (5) Implements of waste antiquity; (6) Petrochemical disposal creation; (7) Co-synthesis tea pot; (8) Relationship in reflexivity; (9) Earth grow myriads of objects, and; (10) Mental image of representation, etc. Inclusion, after the social practice throughout crafts design and creation, this article suggests a new methodology of "Biosocial Sculpture" plays a comprehensive role of `interactive design' to eco-artistic creation", that is, approaching Gesamtkunstwerk of the Sociological Imagination between humans and marine creatures. It reinterpret-and-transform the delicate "Human-Matter" relationship, reappear the form of ideas originate from the ceramic art creators. Furthermore, these works not only initiate popular to pay attention to the human selfishness and disregard to biology, but also transform the social relationship to the environmental art education. It highlights a "social interaction design" engaging popular praxis based on daily tea wares with art education influence directly, keeping on recreation for a "surpass selfhood" endlessly in future.