What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on design?

The impact of the Industrial Revolution:

1. The Industrial Revolution caused changes in the form of production organization. Machine-based factories replaced manual factories.

2. Urbanization and population transfer to cities.

3. It has brought huge changes to people’s daily lives and ideas.

4. Industrialization and urbanization have also created new social problems. For example: polarization between rich and poor, urban population expansion, crowded housing, environmental pollution and other disadvantages.

5. Cause changes in social structure.

6. The international communist movement is a direct product of the industrial revolution.

The Industrial Revolution brought mankind into the machine age, brought about the tremendous development of productive forces and changes in the social class structure, forming two opposing classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in modern industry. The Western countries that have widened the social progress gap between the East and the West, completed the Industrial Revolution, opened the door to backward countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and brought the world into the capitalist commodity economic system.

Impact on China

1. China began to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The two Opium Wars gradually reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the degree further deepened. The war brought serious disasters to China and caused China's long-term poverty and backwardness.

2． The Chinese people fought bravely

During the two Opium Wars, the Chinese people continued to fight, and the peasant class launched the Taiping Rebellion.

3. The emergence of new ideas in China

Enlightened intellectuals such as Wei Yuan and Lin Zexu began to pay attention to the world, explore new knowledge, and seek ways to strengthen a country and resist aggression. A new trend of thinking about learning from the West sprouted.

4． The beginning of China’s modernization

The Westernization Movement, launched by the landlord class Westernization Movement, objectively promoted the emergence and development of China’s capitalism. At the same time, China’s modern industry, science and technology, and education started. The Westernization Movement was the beginning of China’s modernization. .