ID736 OPEN DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY
| Course Code: | 1250736 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr YEKTA BAKIRLIOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims to foster:
- Understanding of openness in design, in terms of open-to-participate processes and openly shared design knowledge,
- Recognition of the potentials of open design in espousing alternative modes of production and consumption, alternative forms of collaboration and doing business,
- Skills and experience for distributed creative processes, their horizontal management and its iterative nature,
- Critical reflection on the novel roles and responsibilities of designers in such creative processes in an increasingly de-centralised and connected world.
Course Content
Open-source and maker movement.Open design and DIY 2.0. Open knowledge sharing and open-source licensing.DG-ML:Design Global Manufacture Local. City-level Circular Economies.Cosmolocalism.
Course Learning Outcomes
On the completion of this course students will be able to:
- Carry out design projects intended for open sharing and dissemination;
- Collaborate remotely with external and global collaborators in various communities, through indirect means (i.e. shared design knowledge and design iterations by others);
- Adapt globally shared designs to local and individual/personal needs and preferences, including changes in material selection, fabrication methodology, user practices, post-use practices;
- Peer-review of open designs for applicability, producibility, durability, adoptability and adaptability.
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