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

CULTURA PORTUGUESA DO DESIGNER - 2021/2022

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

1. Encourage the capacity for critical articulation between various scientific domains inherent to Theory and History, related to the scientific domain of design;
2. Understand the practice of design in specific social, cultural and economic contexts;
3. Apply the nomenclatures and vocabulary specific to design;
3 Analyze the multiplicity inscribed in the practice of design;
4 Understand and recognize Portuguese society´s design projects and products.

Specific Aims/Objectives

1. Provide students with tools and knowledge that will allow them to produce scientific knowledge in the field of design;
2. Know how to identify author movements and strategic lines of each of the main movements that generated groups and/or schools, trends addressed, considering the context;
3. Reflect on the relationship between the social, cultural and historical specificities of the Portuguese population and the practice of national design.

Skills to be acquired

1. Identify and relate specific CPD concepts;
2. Understand how design products contribute to the meaning/qualification of a particular social and cultural environment;
3. Understand how new technologies and materials affect the traditional concept of object;
4. Identify, analyze and understand the specificities that characterize design in Portugal, relating them to its cultural history.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching methodology will consist, in a first stage, in the use of the expositive and of the interrogative methods; in a second stage, will be applied the active method.

Programme

- The design practice in Portugal: socio-historical and cultural perspective.
- The role of design in portuguese society.
- Design and identity. The Portuguese design and national identity.
- The design and industry: Author´s design versus industrial design.
- Globalization: Global design vs. local design.
- Eco-design and sustainable design in Portugal.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation of the course unit of Portuguese Culture of the Designer will be carried out in accordance with the specifications present in the General Regulation of Evaluation of the Universidade Lusíada, which includes:
a) two written exercises for knowledge assessment;
b) the Test of Attendance.

Teaching Resources

- Lectures (audio-visual resources);
- Text analysis;
- Image research.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

History. Culture. Identity. Society.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography