Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design

HISTÓRIA DO DESIGN - 2017/2018

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Rui Alexandre
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Rui Alexandre

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

This course has the purpose to provide the students an evolutionary understanding and
contextualized design through history. It aims to facilitate the understanding of
interdisciplinaridades to consolidate the history of design, as well as to understand their
genesis, considering the close relationship with aspects of technique, creativity, ethics,
knowledge, culture, society, political and economic environment.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Promote and encourage an analytical, critical and reflective in design.
Develop capacity to relate content and historical moments for understanding
design of contemporary society.
Encourage reading and interpretation practices.
Enhance verbal and written expression at the level of subject area, using literature and
authors to theoretical foundation.
Enlarge the theoretical aspect in design history.

Skills to be acquired

Knowing the historical context of the design and its broad applicability.
Identify the historical moments of continuity and conceptual / ideological break
relevant for the construction design professional.
Acquire reasoning ability, interpretation, identification and analysis of parallels between the past and the present design.
Have the ability to identify and relate themes, moments and key players
the history of design.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching methodology to be used will use the expository methods, interrogative and active.
In the teaching sessions the interrogative method will allow targeted and open debates to
support the learning content. The active method will enhance the involvement,
interest, analysis and criticism from students.
Complement of content through study visits, conferences and other activities
relevant.

Programme

1. Background of Design and similar practices.
2. Industrial Revolution: A social, economic and cultural rise.
3. From the pioneering revivals design. Arts and crafts.
4. "American System". Taylorism, Fordism, standardization and mass consumption.
5. Beginning of Modernism. New art and its relevance in the world. "Art Nouveau", "Jungendstil" and
"Wiener Sezession".
6. Deutscher Werkbund: German archetype.
7. The legacy of the Vanguards Russian and Neoplasticism "De Stijl".
8. Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.
9. Functionalism, Art Deco, "L´Esprit Nouveau" in the International style.
10. Styling American, Streamlining, Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm (HfG).
11. Post-modernism, anti-design and utopian movements.
12. Evolution of Design in Portugal.

Evaluation Type

Attendance and active participation (10%);
Written tests (50%);
Individual work assignments (40%).

Teaching Resources

Bibliography support (monographs, articles, interviews, websites, complementary texts, between others).
Image projection means and audiovisual material.
Room with computers with internet connection.
Films, conferences, exhibitions and study tours.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

History of Design
Context
Product design
Graphic design
Interior design

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography