Course overview
Design requires a contemporary, critical evaluation of histories and impacts. This course introduces students to the historical conditions that have shaped Western design knowledge, language, culture and practice in a global context, and reflects on the role and impacts of design in contemporary societies. The course outlines the culture of image and object making in which students will survey early modern and Twentieth Century design through discipline-specific lenses—graphic communication design, and product and industrial design. The course requires students to reflect on current environmental and social crises as consequences of mass-consumerism.
- Early Modern Origins Of Design And Industry
- Impacts Of Early Modern Design
- Design As Politics And Power
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and articulate key relationships between cultural history and different languages, forms and functions of design
- Explore and explain specific connections, influences and impacts between design, culture and society across global and environmental contexts
- Interpret and present written and visual arguments representing the connections, influences and impacts between design, culture and society across global and environmental contexts
- Question, reflect and comment on the connections, influences and impacts between design culture and society across global and environmental contexts
Degree list
The following degrees include this course