Verner Panton, Fantasy Landscape, !970
DSDN171:
design in context
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history of design history of styles
“The narrative historian always has the privilege of deciding that continuity cuts better into certain lengths than into others. He never is required to defend his cut, because history cuts anywhere with equal ease, and a good story can begin anywhere the teller chooses.”
George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), 2.
design before design:
The continuing curve
design and reform:
Beauty, Utility, + Politics
ornament and crime:
modernism and the crimes of ornament
Maxim Velcovsky Blue Onion Collection: Ornament & Crime, 2001
Wassily Kandinsky. Several Circles. 1926. Oil on canvas
COLOUR:
history + theory
modern vision:
photography, film, and the camera eye
Futurama, designed by Norman Bel Geddes, New York World’s fair, 1939
narratives of progress:
technology, design, + nationalism
modernism:
standardisation, rationalisation, and the search for the universal
politics of design: lifestyles + democracy
post-modernism
REMIX
and the
"It is the relationship among things--rather than the things themselves--that gives objects their identities. Though we tend to regard them as having stable and enduring characteristics, the determination of 'thingness' is more a matter of groupings and classifications than it is a consequence of inherent material properties.“
Keith Mitnick, Artificial Light: a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy and other architectural fictions (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), 42.
nature beauty
utility class taste ornament honesty
animal bowls, Hella Jongerius, 2004
politics exhibition consumerism industrialisation modernity nationalism
UK “Seed” Pavilion, Heatherwick Studio 2010 Shanghai Expo
media panorama spectacle space duration photography film
Figure Hopping, series of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, 1887
DSDN171: design in context + core, 15 points + lecture, Wed. 9.00am -10.00am, weekly + tutorials, 50 mins., weekly, Thurs. / Friday
Stream A: Thurs. 08:30am – 09:20am Room: VS318 Stream B: Thurs. 09:30am – 10:20pm Room: VS318 Stream C: Thurs. 12:40pm – 13:30pm Room: VS318 Stream D: Thurs. 13:40pm – 14:30pm Room: VS318 Stream E: Fri. 12:40pm – 13:30pm Room: VS308 Stream F: Fri. 13:40pm – 14:30pm Room: VS308 Stream G: Fri. 14:40pm – 15:30pm Room: VS308 Stream H: Fri. 15:40pm – 16:30pm Room: VS308
+ tutors
Kath Foster: streams A+B Helen Andreae: stream C+D Nan O’Sullivan: streams E - H
DSDN171: design in context + assessments:
written tests x 2 = 40% final grade blog assignments x 10 = 50% final grade tutorial participation = 10% final grade
+ hints:
come to lecture every week take great notes you CAN use them for the tests
DSDN171: design in context learning objectives
+ formulate original and critical perspectives addressing key historical and contemporary design issues
+ demonstrate understanding of the relationships between design and broader social and cultural contexts
+ negotiate ideas in critical response to design practice—socially, culturally, economically, ecologically, and politically
+ recognise key ideas and reoccurring themes in the history of
design and be able to contextualise their impact on practice today
DSDN171: design in context learning objectives [abilities]
+ pursue independent research on specific topics of interest and relevance
+ flexibility and competence with both written and visual media in critical research and analysis
+ compose a clear argument and appropriate evidence addressing design related issues
+ ability to successfully manage time and work load
Buj+Colón Arquitectos , pharmacy, Palencia, Spain
Course Coordinator:
Margaret Maile Petty margaret.petty@vuw.ac.nz office hours: Mon. 9.30- 11.00
blog assignment 1 due: 18.00, Friday, 16 July brief:
+ use your DSDN101 blog; tag or title blog posts with DSDN171 and
assignment number + post an entry describing an example of design that you think is important + in 50 words or less describe why you think it is important + if you do not have a DSDN101 blog, please create a blog for the course and email link to blog to your tutor