ID336 DESIGN THROUGH MATERIALS
| Course Code: | 1250336 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr DAMLA TÖNÜK KRUITHOF |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims for impact through collaboration with materials innovators and other collaborators to create sustainable, eco-friendly, eco-material solutions. This term the course will join with aTUBITAK funded project to design a water circulation system, and the second project will require students to make a promotional video with cellulose based cartonboard material. Through these projects students will be able to gain hands on experience with industry and municipality partners, get to know about circular systems of materials, namely water. The students will learn about economics, design, industry relations, design solutions and applications on two materials - water and cartonboard. The students will practice conveying sustainable design ideas to municipalities and citizens. They will get to join an international design contest, which gives them profound opportunities to meet industry and gain knowledge on sustainable materials.
Course Content
Theoretical foundations on relationships between materials and products; designer engagement in materials innovation; exploration through materials; designing materials for material innovation; eco-materials; contemporary eco-solutions through materials innovation; sustainable futures; material circularit
Course Learning Outcomes
Students will acquire sensitivity towards material effects of mass production, affinity with eco-solutions, practicing and promoting eco-solutions.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Creative problem defining and solving. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Planning and managing the design process. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D). | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Competency in the processes and actions in professional life. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Ability in working within teams. | ✔ | |||
| 15 | Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution