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Design Theory and Critics

Design Theory and Critics

Code	12727
Year	2
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Art and Design
Entry requirements	No entry requirements.
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face
Learning outcomes	This course approaches design practice as much as its ideological and social implications. It aims to promote the understanding of design's theoretical foundations as their context, as well as its undeniable and profound contribution to the definition of contemporary culture, which emphasizes the importance of its critic. Hence, the established learning goals are: Recognize design as a problem in the contemporary world; Understand design's theoretical foundations; Develop an analytical and critical perspective about design as a scientific field; Be able to correctly and thoughtfully articulate and justify the analysis and critic of a design object.
Syllabus	01 Contemporary views on design; Theory and criticism in Design; 02 Design and material culture, objects of mediation; Total Design and dematerialisation; 03 Relationship between art and technique, dichotomy, ambiguity or symbiosis; Value and values; Impacts of design, social responsibility and ethics.
Main Bibliography	Baudrillard, Jean. Para uma Crítica da Economia Ploítica do Signo, Edições 70, 1995[1972]; Bonsiepe, Gui (2022), Penin, Lara ed., The Disobedience of Design, London: Bloomsbury; Coles, Alex ed., (2007), Design and Art, Massachussets, MITPress; Dilnot, Clive. Ethics in Design, 10 Questions (2009), in Clark, Hazel, Brody, David Eds. Design Studies a Reader, Berg; Flusser, Vilém (1999), The Shape of Things, A philosophy of Design, London: Reaktion Books. Foster, Hal (2003), 'Design and Crime', Design and Crime, and Other Diatribes London: Verso, 13-26. Hara, Kenya (2014), Designing Design, Baden: Lars Müller Pablishers. Ihde, Don (2008), 'The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination', in Vermaas, Pieter E., et al. (eds.), Philosophy and Design, From engineering to Architecture Helvert, Marjanne van Ed. (2016), The Responsible Object, Amsterdam: Valiz
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	Presentation of the programmed syllabus following a set of texts and multimedia materials. Critical discussion with the students about the analysed topics is permanently valued and instigated as part of the class’s organic and progression of the semester.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.