Aesthetics

Code	16445
Year	2
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	4
Workload	TP(45H)
Scientific area	Social and Human Sciences
Entry requirements	N.A.
Learning outcomes	This curricular unit aims to develop and deepen the capacity for critical analysis of contemporary design production, in which reasoning and aesthetic language penetrate. In this way, different ways of interpreting industrial design are provided, allowing plural reflection on both the objects and the discipline. Competences a) Analyze and criticize aesthetic objects from multiple perspectives; b) Examine, understand and contextualize contemporary works of art and design; c) Develop a critical voice on object design and its different implications; d) Apply aesthetic knowledge and a sense of taste to design practice.
Syllabus	Program themes: 1. Introduction: notion, history and problems of Aesthetics, 2. Aesthetics and philosophy 2.1. Aesthetic object 2.2 Aesthetic experience 3. Aesthetics, Criticism and Art 3.1 Nature of criticism 3.2 Functions of criticism 3.3 Modes of criticism 3.3.1 Hermeneutics 3.3.2 Semiotics 3.3.3 Phenomenology 3.3.4 Rhetoric 4. Design and Aesthetics 4.1 Form and function 4.1.1 Mediation/Sharing 4.1.2 Politics 4.1.3 History 5. Conclusion: aesthetics, design and technique
Main Bibliography	BENJAMIN, W., “A obra de arte na era da sua reprodutibilidade técnica”, in Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política, Lisboa, Relógio D’Água, 1992. BERGER, J. (2018). Modos de ver, Lisboa, Antígona. DEWEY, J. (1934, 2005), Art as experience, Ed. Perigee. FOLKMANN, Mads Nygaard, Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication, Cambridge assachusetts, The MIT Press, 2023. GAUT, Berys & LOPES, Dominic McIver. The Routledge companion to aesthetics, London, Routledge, 2005. HEIDEGGER, M., Origem da obra de arte, Lisboa, Ed.70, 1991. KANT, Crítica da faculdade do juízo [Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790], Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1992. MANOVITCH, Lev, Post-Media Aesthetics (2001), https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/post-media-aesthetics. RANCIÈRE, J. (2010). Ética e política. A partilha do sensível, Dafne Editora. YANAGI, Soetsu, The Beauty of Everyday Things, London Pinguin Random House, 2018.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	The assessment methodology includes a final written test on the topics covered in the syllabus, followed by an oral defense in class in which the skills to be assessed are knowledge of the topics, reading and analysis of the texts of the referential authors and their critical examination.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.