ID425 CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTS

Course Code:1250425
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:Lecturer FİGEN IŞIK
Offered Semester:Fall Semesters.

Course Objectives

Aims to give the students different perspectives to understand/analyze a product, which are geometric, morphological, cognitive, cultural, and political.


Course Content

This course is designed as an elective course for undergradute program in Industrial Design. It focuses on the formal, functional, narrative, historical, social, and cultural analysis of products. Products will be determined by selecting from modern classics, postmodern icons, contemporary products that are locally and/or internationally designed. The course aims at developing critical skills of the students when evaluating a product/design, which will also contribute to the design understanding/approach of the students.


Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course students are expected to be able to

Identify a product’s style and period it belongs to and reasons behind its prominent qualities, Analyze products formally, geometrically, and functionally, Analyze products’ cultural and social significance, connotations, narratives behind them if necessary via commercials,

Draw their analyses by hands-on methods and computer renderings to be able to show the products’ significance and analyses from aspects stated above.


Program Outcomes Matrix

Level of Contribution
#Program Outcomes0123
1Creative problem defining and solving.
2Planning and managing the design process.
3Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D).
4Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research.
5Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society.
6Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life.
7Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights.
8Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences.
9Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change.
10Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments.
11Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches.
12Competency in the processes and actions in professional life.
13Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments.
14Ability in working within teams.
15Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions.

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