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16379
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
5
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| Workload |
TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Design Industrial
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Entry requirements |
n/a
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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.
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Syllabus |
1. Contemporary discourses design
1.1 Object – concept – experience
1.2 Challenges of dematerialization: celebration and problematization of the ephemeral
1.3 The role of the designer in the face of process automation
2. Design and social responsibility
2.1 Intervention and participation
2.2 Environmental and social (un)sustainability
2.3 Design and democracy
3. Memory, identity, and the construction of futures
3.1 Between preservation and transgression
3.2 Mapping ruptures: counterculture and resistance
3.3 Speculative design and fiction
4. Mediation and transmediation
4.1 Interface: limit, boundary, access
4.2 Does form no longer follow function?
4.3 Becoming (in)organic
5. References from/to contemporary design
5.1 Thinking about design from the perspective of design
5.2 Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity
5.3 Design practice as a model and object of research.
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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.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Presentation of the programmed topics following a set of texts and multimedia materials. Critical discussion with the students about the analysed themes is permanently valued and instigated as part of the class’s organic and progression of the semester.
Use of AI: permitted only as a research tool.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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