| Course title | Introduction to the history and theory of design |
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| Course code | KDT/FU066 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Introduction to the origin of design and its development until the Second World War. 2. European modernism - Italian design - Scandinavian design - French design. 3. American modernism. 4. German functionalism - School in Ulm. 5. Alternatives to modernism: decorative interior design - French decorators, artists in the role of designers. 6. Plastics and design of space-age - Kartell - Joe Colombo - Verner Panton - Olivier Morgue - Futuro House - Matti Suuronen - Eero Aarnio. 7. Radical design - Superstudio - Archizoom - UFO - Studio 65 - Ugo La Pietra - Nanda Vigo - Gufram - Poltronova - Ettore Sottsass. 8. Memphis - Alchemy - Art and Industry - Creative Salvage - Ettore Sottass - Alessandro Mendini - Ron Arad - Tom Dixon - Terence Main. 9. Conceptual design of the nineties and the beginning of the millennium, tendencies of the 21st century - Droog - Hella Jongerius - Marcel Wanders - Richard Hutten - Dunne and Raby - Front - Studio Job - Makkink Bey - Jasper Morrison - Kontantin Grcic - Ross Lovegrove - Nendo - Michael Anasstasiades - Jonathan Ive - Marc Newson. 10. Process design, design and performance - Swine Studio - Judith Seng - Glithero Studio - Martino Gamper - Silo Studio - Max Lamb. 11. Design and the future - design as information and analysis - Neri Oxman - Forensic Architecture - Anssemble Studio - Paola Antonelli - Formafantasma.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course is based on the definition of basic tendencies, styles and names that contributed to the development of design, applied art and partly architecture from the end of World War II to the present. The individual chapters will guide the students through various tendencies and introduce their fundamental creators, as well as the connections between the individual directions and their historical development. From how the armament of war was reflected in the new technological possibilities of the origin of design in the post-war period, to the current conceptual tendencies.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study. |
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Successful completion of the previous study
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
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