Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Tasarım Tarihi I
	English	History of Design I
Course Code	EUT 246E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	2	2	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gülname Turan
Course Objectives		1. To develop an overall perspective on concepts and prominent issues related to design and industrial design. 2. To introduce; history of design is not ultimately about objects but about ideas and thoughts. 3. To introduce the vocabulary inherited from the past as the challenges faced by design professionals today are rarely without precedent. 4. Gain insights from the manner in which questions of design have been posed throughout the industrial era. 5. To survey developments which led to the emergence of industrial design as a separate profession.
Course Description		Relations of Production and Consumption Before Industrial Revolution; The Renaissance: Distinction Between Art and Craft; Design Before Industrial Revolution; Industrial Progress at 19th Century , World Fairs; Design Reforms: Shakers, Aesthetic Movement, Arts & Crafts; Design Reforms: Art Nouveau and Reflections, Scandinavia and Vernacular Design; Reflections of WWI and the Impact of War Industry on Design; Design and Modernism: Proto-modernism, Deutscher Werkbund, Wiener Werkstatte, De Stijl; Design and Modernism: Bauhaus, International Style, UAM, Machine Aesthetic; Design and Modernism: Scandinavian Modernism, England and Eastern Europe; Consumption as Lifestyle: Birth of Industrial Design Profession; Design in the Periphery.
Course Outcomes		Student, who passed the course satisfactorily can: 1. Understand a product within its social, cultural and economic context. 2. Make critiques of the designed objects around. 3. Criticize the objects around on the basis of aesthetics. 4. Relate the designs and the designers to the vocabulary inherited from the past. 5. Think on the social responsibilities of their profession.
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Required Facilities
Other		Submission of movie quiz. Seminar by the student (a theme or a decade, 19th century, early 20th century) (Seminars by the students are organized during the course.) Development of visual memory through exhibition and museum visits in Istanbul, when possible. Seminars from other professors when available.
Textbook		Raizman, D., 2003, History of Modern Design, Laurence King Publishing.
Other References		Sparke, P., 2004, An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the present, Routledge. Sparke, P., 1997, The New Design Source Book, Knickerbocker Press. Heskett, J., 1980, Industrial Design, Thames and Hudson.

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