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Lecturer(s)
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Polanecký Jaroslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Principles of industrial design. Conditions for the creation of design in general and the definition of its scope. Specifics of applied arts, arts and crafts and their influence on industrial design. 2. The beginnings of industrialization and serial production - ancient, medieval and renaissance roots. Baroque manufactories. 3. Technical revolution of the 18th century. Pioneers of new production methods. The beginnings of the design profession. Wedgwood, Boulton. 4. Interconnection of architecture, fine and applied art and industrial environment. The influence of Baroque, Classicism and Romanticism on the design of the 19th century. 5. Half of the 19th century. Eclectic visual tendencies versus dynamic development of technologies in the second phase of the technical revolution. Pressed glass, cast iron, concrete, new materials. 6th World's Fair in London 1851. Establishment of specialized educational institutions for designers and craftsmen (South Kensington, School of Applied Arts). The role of collection institutions of the artistic and industrial type (Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Applied Arts in Prague). Contemporary theoretical reflection on industry and applied art. 7. Formation of modern principles of industrial production in the second half of the 19th century. Specialization of production, share of unskilled labor. Mass serial production and its standardization. Advent of the USA. Gasification, electrification. 8. Arts and Crafts movement as a reaction to industrial production. Craft versus factory production. Aesthetic movement in the social and economic context of the end of the 19th century. 9. The emergence of a specialized profession - industrial designer. Christopher Dresser. 10. The influence of non-European cultures on the transformation of aesthetic canons of design at the end of the 19th century. Japanese applied art and traditional architecture as a source of new stimuli. 11. Design of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The influence of modern artistic trends. Art Nouveau. 12. Pioneers of modern design and major manufacturers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The important role of architecture. 13. Important collection and exhibition institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad. Professional literature (contemporary and contemporary).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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The course is focused on explaining the basic concepts in the field of design, the origin and evolution of the field of design from the beginning of industrialization and its further development to the beginning of the 20th century, including the creation of exhibition, collection and educational institutions. Attention is also paid to the issue of contemporary and contemporary theoretical reflection on 19th century design and its presentation.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
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COLLINS, Michael. Towards Post-Modernism. Design Since 1851. British Museum Press, London, 1994. ISBN ISBN 0-7141-0570.
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Hauffe, Thomas. Design. HAUFFE, Thomas, 2004. ISBN 80-251-0284-X.
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Heskett, John. Industrial Design. Thames and Hudson, London, 1997. ISBN 0-500-20181-1.
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KOLESÁR, Zdeno. Kapitoly z dějin designu. Praha, 2009. ISBN 978-80-86863-28-3.
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