COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conceptual Approaches in Contemporary Design | IND 408 | Fall-Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Industrial Design |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | 1. To assist the student to develop an understanding of the major issues for design in modern society. 2. To gain an understanding of the larger social, economic, political and ethical contexts within which design functions in the current state of globalization. 3. To demonstrate the potential of designers and artists to serve as both mediators and critics of culture through their studio practices. 4. To gain exposure to a variety of modes of thought, disciplinary approaches to solving and setting design problems. |
| Course Contents: | This course is designed to identify and to discuss the broad issues that are shaping design in the 21st century. Concentrating on how design practice can develop ways of thinking about its potentials to change and reflect contemporary life, the course proceeds to an examination of the ways in which design reacts to radical changes. In the light of the ecological, cultural, social and ethical concerns raised by globalization, this course discusses the sensitivities and understandings that design practice develops. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Weekly assignments consist of short essays on readings and research on contemporary design examples. Students are expected to present their ideas on readings and to direct class discussions in groups every week. - In-class discussions and Q & A. - Written assignment - Mid-term and final exams. |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culture and design as praxis: Culture as a way of growth, design as an agent of change | |
| 2 | Culture mirrored in design : Postnationalism/Transnationalism (Appadurai/Traganou) Mediascapes, Ethnoscapes, Ideoscapes, Financescapes, Technoscapes (Appadurai) Aesthetic of the Ephemeral, Cosmopolitanism (Appiah) | |
| 3 | 2Design and globalization: Post-industrial production systems | |
| 4 | Design capacities (Clive Dilnot) | |
| 5 | The designer as cultural nomad | |
| 6 | Global design and localities | |
| 7 | Mid-term examination | |
| 8 | Design and ethics in the real world: Issues of transparency and power | |
| 9 | Design and crafts: Experimentation (Droog Design, Front Design) | |
| 10 | Designing interactions: IDEO and etnographic research | |
| 11 | Sustainability and design: Scenarios for sustainable living, product and service systems | |
| 12 | Critical Design | |
| 13 | Open source Design Models | |
| 14 | Interaction of art and design in the 21th century |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Bauman, Zgymunt. Culture as Praxis. London: Routledge, 1973 Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Public Worlds, Vol. 1, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1996. Hunt, Jamer, “Just Re-do It: Tactical Formlessness and Everyday Consumption,” in Blauvelt, Andrew, ed. Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2003. “Designer as Author” in Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona. Design Noir: The Secretive Life of Electronic Objects. London: August/Birkhauser, 2001. Bauman, Zygmunt, “In the beginning was design or the waste of order-building,” in Bauman, Zygmunt, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004 Dilnot, Clive. “Ethics? Design?” from Tigerman, Stanley, ed. The Archeworks Papers, Vol. 1, Number 2, Chicago: Archeworks, 2005 Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, 2008. Donahue, Sean.“Enabling Design” in Laurel, Brenda, ed. Design Research: Methods and Perspectives. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Homework Assignments | 4 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total: | 8 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Homework Assigments | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Course Specific Internship | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 |
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High