FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN
Department of Industrial Design
DM 300 | Course Introduction and Application Information
Course Name |
Communication in Design
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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DM 300
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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4
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Prerequisites |
None
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Course Language |
English
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Course Type |
Elective
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Course Level |
First Cycle
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Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | - | |||||
Course Coordinator | ||||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | The course aims to explore the role(s) of communication in various design disciplines. It also intends to reconsider designing as a communicative activity related to the exchange of messages and information. |
Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course provides students with theoretical tools and frameworks that help them consider the activity of design from the perspective of communication. The classes involve reading material, documentary film screenings, discussion topics, in-class exercises and short project works that are designed to introduce students with the major ideas, theories and methods of analysis relevant to the study of communication in design. The course adopts an interdisciplinary framework intended to engage students in a creative dialog among different design fields as well as different professions. |
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Core Courses | |
Major Area Courses |
X
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Supportive Courses | ||
Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
1 | The State of Design in the Modern World | None |
2 | The Shape of Things to Come: Past, Present and Future of Design | Assigned readings (Flusser) |
3 | The Shape of Things to Come: Past, Present and Future of Design | Assigned readings (Sterling) - In-class assignment |
4 | Making Sense of Visual Works in Art and Design | Study of assigned visuals (selected from Hall) |
5 | Making Sense of Visual Works in Art and Design | Study of assigned visuals (selected from Hall) - Collection and production of visuals |
6 | Making Sense of Visual Works in Art and Design | Assigned reading (Fiske) - Assignment |
7 | Design as Communication | Assigned reading (Munari) - Class work |
8 | Designing and Reading Information Visually | Assigned reading (Ware, Hadlaw) - Film screening |
9 | Designing and Reading Information Visually | Assignment |
10 | Making Sense of (Designed) Objects | Assigned readings (Barthes) - Film screening |
11 | Making Sense of (Designed) Objects | Assigned readings (Prown, Margolies) - Assignment |
12 | Exploring Visual Rhetoric in Design | Assigned readings (Messaris) |
13 | Exploring Visual Rhetoric in Design | Assigned readings (Ehses, Buchanan) - Class work |
14 | Exploring Visual Rhetoric in Design | Assignment - Film screening |
15 | Presentation and Review of Final Works | Class work - Project |
16 | Overview of the Term | None |
Course Notes/Textbooks | |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005.
Flusser, Vilem. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. London: Reaktion, 2012.
Fiske, John. Introduction to Communication Studies. London: Routledge, 1990.
Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics. London: Laurence King, 2007.
Munari, Bruno. Design as Art. London: Penguin Books, 1971.
Ware, Colin. Visual Thinking for Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
Hadlaw, Janin. “The London Underground Map: Imagining Modern Time and Space.” Design Issues: Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2003.
Barthes, Roland. “Semantics of the Object”. in. The Semiotic Challenge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Prown, Jules David. “On the “Art” in Artifacts”. Gerald L. Pocius (ed). Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture. Institute of Social & Economic Research, Canada, 1991.
Margolies, Eleanor. “Were Those Boots Made Just for Walking? Shoes as Performing Objects in Everyday Life and in the Theatre.” Visual Communication, Vol 2 (2), 2003.
Ehses, Hanno H. J. “Representing Macbeth: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric”. Design Issues, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Spring, 1984), pp. 53-63.
Buchanan, Richard. “Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice.” Design Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1. (Spring, 1985), pp. 4-22.
Messaris, Paul. “Pictures and Reality” in. Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising. Sage, 1996. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation |
1
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10
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Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
4
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20
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Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments |
1
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30
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Presentation / Jury |
1
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15
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Project |
1
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25
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Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exams | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
8
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100
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Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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Study Hours Out of Class |
0
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Field Work |
0
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Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
4
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5
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20
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Portfolio |
0
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Homework / Assignments |
1
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22
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22
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Presentation / Jury |
1
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12
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12
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Project |
1
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18
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18
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Seminar / Workshop |
0
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Oral Exam |
0
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Midterms |
0
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Final Exam |
0
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Total |
120
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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