Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design
ÉTICA, DEONTOLOGIA E LEGISLAÇÃO - 2021/2022
3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 3
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Paula Soares
Class type and School hours
Teórica : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
To stimulate the ability for critical articulation between the different scientific domains inherent to Ethics, Deontology and Legislation, related to the scientific domain of design.
To understand the conceptual framework about origin and meaning of Ethics;
To comprehend the deontological dimension in design activity;
To stimulate the thinking on the designers sense of the responsibility(ies);
To comprehend the regulatory norms, rights and duties for the design activity and related legislation.
Specific Aims/Objectives
To assimilate the importance that Ethics assumes in the organizational dynamics;
To promote awareness and attitudes in the ethical dimension of the designer practice;
To reflect on the relationship between design, market, customers, users and the State;
To analyse the ethics problematization through concrete case studies in the national and/or international market.
Skills to be acquired
To raise awareness for the ethical culture construction;
To assimilate and apply the concept of ethics in professional and/or organizational contexts;
To promote the formation of attitudes that sensitize the flexibility and adaptability that are constant in postmodernity;
To develop critical sense;
To elaborate well-grounded speeches (written and oral).
Teaching Procedures
The teaching methodology will consist of: 1) expository and interrogative methods during the programmatic contents explanation (with concrete examples); 2) active method by the techniques of debate and case study.
Programme
1. Conceptual framework: origin, foundation, relevance and timeliness of ethics in general and, particularly in design.
2. Ethics, deontology and social responsibility.
3. The social, economic and cultural importance of design in various contexts.
4. The importance of Sustainable Development in design.
5. The role of professional codes, advantages and limitations.
6. The ethical dimension of the designer and commitment with the stakeholders.
7. National and international legislation in the area of design.
8. Design as an area of the industrial and artistic domains of intellectual activity.
9. Intellectual property, copyright and industrial property.
10. The design and the different legal regimes of industrial property.
Evaluation Type
The evaluation will be carried out according to the specifications present in the General Evaluation Regulation of the University Lusíada. In addition, continuous assessment criteria are: a) attendance and oral participation in classes; b) an individual research work; c) two written evaluation exercises; d) the Frequency Test.
Teaching Resources
Exposition classes (audio-visual resources);
Study visits (if they fit the topics covered);
Texts analysis;
Research and analysis of study cases;
Individual and/or group work for presentation and debate.
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Design. Ethic. Deontology. Legislation.
Main Bibliography
Author | STONE, J.; RIGSBY, L. |
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Title | Design Business and Ethics |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Place | New York |
Editor | AIGA |
Year | 2009 |
Author | FERRELL, O.C.; FRAEDRICH, J.; FERREL. L. |
Title | Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and cases |
Edition | 12th ed. |
Place | Boston |
Editor | Cengage Learning |
Year | 2018 |
Author | PAPANEK, V. |
Title | Arquitectura e Design, Ecologia e Ética |
Place | Lisboa |
Editor | Edições 70 |
Year | 2007 |