An Analysis of the Roles of Stakeholders in Industrial Cultural and Creative Product Design

Abstract

For the regeneration projects of cultural and creative industry in former industrial sites in Shenyang, design thinking and methods involving various parties’ participation in industrial cultural products are developed to stimulate the development of local economy and urban culture. Research methods including questionnaires, interviews, speculative design, participatory design are used to analyse these stakeholders’ roles in different stages of industrial culture-related cultural and creative product design. This paper proposes the establishment of stakeholder maps and the way to identify the core stakeholders. Through the conceptual design and practice of Industrial culture products in Shenyang of China, this paper finally concludes that core stakeholders can help the design team to generate new values in creative research and development process.