ID521 CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF DESIGN
| Course Code: | 1250521 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr DAMLA TÖNÜK KRUITHOF |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims to introduce social and cultural relationships implicated in designed objects with the aim of providing a perspective into broader relationships surrounding design. This will provide the students a critical perspective and improve their critique skills that aer important for the theory and culture of design discipline.
Course Content
Definition of design in general and industrial design in particular as cultural phenomena. Identification and establishment of the disciplinary frameworks within which design activity, designed products and their contexts are analyzed in terms of a wide range of paradigms . A general knowledge of the various modes of interpretation and analysis of products as material culture. Critical sense of observation and discrimination in the course of designing and encountering products.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to understand broader issues that surround designed objects. They will be able to critique designed objects and be able to formulate their own perspective. They will be able to understand cultural and social make up of users and other non-humans of designed objects.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Identifying research areas in distinct and contemporary topics and formulating research problems; | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being competent in the research process, process planning, managing, analyzing data, and correctly interpreting findings; | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Transforming knowledge in the field and research results into strategies, politics, methods and/or decisions; | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Transferring research findings into design education and practice; | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Disseminating generated knowledge, making publications and presenting them; | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Having general knowledge in the field of design, having covered the literature and developing expertise in specific topics; | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having responsibility towards own research, respecting and practicing research ethics; | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having work discipline and skills in time planning; | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Having skills in oral, written and visual communication; | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Open to continuous education and self-development, having high professional motivation; | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Open and willing to share knowledge and skills with stakeholders; | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Being critical, able to make self-criticism, reflecting objective and unprejudiced thinking into their own work; | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Synthesising knowledge from different disciplines to use in one?s own field and using it for generating new knowledge. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution