Design Theory and Criticism
Programme
Communication Design
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
| Semestral | 4
Year | Type of course unit | Language
2 |Mandatory |Português
Code
ULP729-7247
Recommended complementary curricular units
[Does not apply]
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
1. Good and Bad Design: definitions, reviews, authors, design and philosophy;
2. Design and Future: possible relations between science fiction and design;
3. Loving the alien: Empathy and the ignorance / recognition of the other;
4. Communicating beyond barriers: linguistics, semiology, rhetoric, and even empathy;
5. Iterative processes, cognitive noise, visual thinking, language as a structure;
6. Connecting signals: Cartesian thinking versus non-linear thinking, clustering and the ¿eureka moment¿;
7. Complex systems, systemic thinking, systems design;
8. Speculating futures: design, utopias and dystopias.
Objectives
The main objective of the discipline is to develop the students¿ ability to think critically about design and learn to see design critically. At the end of the semester, students must:
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The discipline is based on:
References
Office Hours
Nome do docente Horário de atendimento Sala Gabriel Patrocinio [a combinar por e-mail] [a combinar]