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Project Design and Methodology

Code 12746
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(45H)
Scientific area Design
Entry requirements Not aplied
Mode of delivery PROJECT DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY (10562) - Graduation - 1st. Year Theoretical-practical.
Work placements 75% Classes attendance required.
Learning outcomes - Enhance analytical ability adapting the design to the several constraints of the system (client, market, production, raw material and user);
- Planning, systematizing and leading several research activities in product development;
- Thinking methodological systems to identify opportunities and logical solutions for emerging problems in the development of the product design.
- Working in multidisciplinary teams and become acquainted with teamwork design methods and methodologies, for problem search, intervention and development.
- Knowing design research methods for students’ development of their own methodologies and procedures rationally conducting their design projects.
- Development of aptitude for the adequate application of methods, structures, techniques, procedures in the design processes of each design challenge.
Syllabus Part 1. Introduction to language use in design: design as act of communication, Andy Dong theory, semantics in design; Introduction to Product Design Methodology: design methodology, product functions model of Bernd Lobach; Methodology; Methods: creative, deductive, productive and reproductive; Models: Descriptive and prescriptive; Tools for creativity: Inverted Brainstorming, Method 635, Mental models, QFD matrix, Card sorting, Action-decision Flowchart, Evaluation Matrix, Morphological
Box.
Part 2. Knowledge of design methodologies from the literature: Research of design methodologies:
a) Bruce Archer; b) Bernhard Burdek; c) Bruno Munary; d) Gui Bonssipe; e) Mike Baxter; f) Kannengiessen Gero; g) Ulrich Eppinger; h) Kenya Hara, i) Eeckels Roozenburg, and; 1)TuDelft; 2) User-Centred-Design; 3) Sellf Design; 4) Universal Design; 5) Eco Design; 6) Design Thinking; 7) Design Cavans and White design. Science-based design.
Part 3. Methodological experimentation in product design
Main Bibliography ARCHER (1979). Whatever became of design methodology? Design Studies, Vol 1, p17
BONSIEPE (1992). Teoria e Prática do Design Industrial, Lisboa, C.P.D
BURDEK (2005). Design History, theory and practice of product design, Basel, Birkhauser
Dong, A. (2009). The Language of design; Theory and Computation. London, England: Springer-Verlag Ltd.
DUBBERLY (2004). How do you design? S Francisco Dubberly Design Office.
HANINGTON; MARTIN (2012) Universal Methods of Design. MA. USA, Rockpub Publishers. Inc.
Krippendorff, K. (2006). The Semantic turn. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press
LIDWELL; MANACSA (2011). Deconstructing Product Design: MA. USA. Rockpub Publishers. Inc.
LOBACH (2001). Design Industrial. Editora  Edgard Blucher Ltda.
MUNARI (1981). Das Coisas Nascem as Coisa Lisboa, Ed. Presença.
ROOZENBURG & EEKELS (1995). Product Design: Fundamentals and Methods. Chichester. John Wiley& Sons Ltd.

Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-07-10

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