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Contemporary Design Themes

Contemporary Design Themes

Code	16379
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	5
Workload	TP(45H)
Scientific area	Design Industrial
Entry requirements	n/a
Learning outcomes	At the end of this curricular unit, the student must be able to identify different notions, practices and interpretations of contemporary Design, as well as critically approach them. He is expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of the diverse dimensions that envelop the association between Design and technology on the one hand and, on the other, of the possible implications and consequences of his ideas and actions in the world, everyday life and to the future, predicting the social impact of the different Design practices and identifying scenarios to its strategic intervention. It is also our purpose that each student is able to demonstrate competence to work both individually and in group, understanding the previously defined parameters for each evaluation moment, as well as concern with the quality of the presented results, orally and in writing, and with the fulfillment of the established goals.
Syllabus	1. Contemporary notions of Design 1.1 Object - concept - experience 1.2 Challenges of dematerialization and return to reality 1.3 From celebration to the uncertainty of the ephemeral 1.4 Whatever happened to total design? Total design paradigm and critic; 2. Design and social responsibility 2.1 Intervention and participation 2.2 Un/Sustainability 2.3 The risk of change; 3. Memory, identity and construction of futures 3.1 Between preservation and transgression 3.2 Ruptures: counter-culture and resistance 3.3 Filling the blankets: poetics and possibilities; 3.4 Speculative Design and fiction; 4. Mediation and transmediation 4.1 Interface: limit, frontier, access 4.2 The complex surface 4.3 Hybrid as evolution 4.4 (In)Organic conversion; 5. References to/of contemporary Design 5.1 Who does what where 5.2 Thinking Design through Design 5.3 Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity 5.4 Projectual practices as model and object of reflexion.
Main Bibliography	ANTONELLI, P. and VECCHIERINI, P. eds. (2008). Design and the Elastic Mind. Museum of Modern Art DUNNE, A. and RABY, F. (2013). Speculative Everything. The MIT Press. GREENFIELD, A. (2017). Radical Technologies, The Design of Everyday Life. Verso LUPTON, E. and MILLER, A. (2006). Design writing research. Writing on graphic design, Phaidon. MARGOLIN, V. (2014). Design e risco de mudança, ESAD. MALPASS, M. (2017). Critical design in context: history, theory, and practices. Bloomsbury Academic. PAPANEK, V. (2011). Design for the real world. Human ecology and social change, Thames & Hudson. RAWSTHORN, A. (2013). Hello World. Hamish Hamilton. SCHERLING, L & DEROSA, A. eds, (2020) Ethics in Design and Communication, Bloomsbury TÁVORA VILAR, E. (Coord.), (2014). Design et al. Dez perspectivas contemporâneas, D. Quixote. VAN HELVERT, M. ed, (2016). The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future, Valiz.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.