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16387
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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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 |
Non applicable.
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face
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Work placements |
Not applicable
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Learning outcomes |
This course aims to develop and deepen the analytical and critical thought on design's contemporary products. In this manner promoting different methods of interpreting design, allowing a plural reflexion on both, design objects and the design field.
Learning outcomes
a) Thoroughly analyse and criticise design objects using multiple perspectives;
b) Examine, understand and contextualise the contemporary production of design;
c) To develop a critical voice on design and it's different implications
d) Apply design criticism knowledge to a design project
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Syllabus |
1. The critical discussion of design and its objects;
2. Forms of critical analysis in design;
Hermeneutics
Semiotics
Phenomenology
Rhetoric
3. Critical perspectives
Mediation
Political
Historical
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Main Bibliography |
Barthes, Roland (2007). Crítica e Verdade, Lisboa, Edições 70;
Bürdek, Bernhard.E. (2006). História, Teoria e Prática do Design de Produtos, Edgard Blücher;
Eagleton, Terry (2005). The Function of Criticism, Verso Books;
Heller, Stephen, Heinz, Molly (Eds.)(2025). The Education of a Design Writer, Allworth;
Sparke, Penny (2013). An Introduction to Design and Culture (3rd ed.), Routledge;
Twemlow, Alice (2017). Sifting the Trash, A history of design criticism, MIT Press.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Theoretical sessions presenting and discussing the content topics, with a strong emphasis on the in-depth analysis and critical discussion of design objects, considering the globality of perspectives. The type of critical analysis of design objects may be related with the project to be developed by the students in the respective curricular unit. The assessment is based on the students' critical discussion of the objects, both in the form of classroom presentations and through other written or multimedia means.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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