| Academic Unit: |
Industrial Design |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Course Objectives: |
The course aims to provide students with an insight into the historical conditions of the emergence of modern design culture in Turkey, in order to help students develop a perspective on the design culture in Turkey. Design as an activity and its intersections between different spheres such as arts, crafts and industry, creativity and commerce, style and utility, design discourses, issues of production and consumption, will be examined throughout the culture of design in a period since 20th century to today, to be discussed with a wide range of examples. |
| Course Contents: |
The course inquires on the design cultures in Turkey, including the crafts as well as the modern design perspectives and contexts. The course provides the students the opportunity for exploring the historical as well as the contemporary issues of the expanded field of design culture in Turkey, with insights into social, cultural, technical, industrial and political contexts. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- Identify the historical circumstances that gave rise to the emergence of modern design in Turkey.
- 2- Compare and contrast craft and design with respect to their processes of production and aesthetic characteristics in Turkey.
- 3- Illustrate the roles and contributions of different stakeholders and professions in giving shape to the activity of design in various periods in Turkey.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
Lectures, readings, visits to museums, archives and exhibitions. student presentations. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
Defining Design Culture: Changing Meanings of Design and Culture |
Examining the syllabus. |
| 2 |
Defining Design Culture: Changing Meanings of Design and Culture |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
| 3 |
From Craft to Design: Design Culture in late Ottoman Empire . |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
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Design Culture and Industrialization: Mechanization and Industrialization in late Ottoman Period and Turkey |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
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Modernity and Design: Modernism an its ideals, prominent examples from Turkey. |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
| 6 |
Visit to Museum, Archives, Exhibitions |
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| 7 |
Midterm |
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| 8 |
The Emergence of Professional Design and its Schools: birth of the Designer in Turkey and new approaches |
Reading the assigned material before the class Bringing the selected products to the class (as an initial response to the assignment) |
| 9 |
Design and Nationalism: Approaches to Design with National Identity |
Reading the assigned material before the class Writing up the assignment. |
| 10 |
Design and the Home: Innovation and Domestic Design in Turkey |
Reading the assigned material before the class Submission of the assignment. |
| 11 |
Visit to Museum |
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Design and connections with other fields: Social Design, Arts and Design, Urban Design, Biennales, Museums and Exhibitions |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
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Design and Social Responsibility in Turkey: Design and Politics |
Reading the assigned material before the class |
| 14 |
Presentations |
Composing a report and a presentation on an assigned topic. |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
