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 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