IDG2342
Design History and Design Theory
Spring
Gjøvik
Norwegian
About this course
Content
The course provides an introduction to western design history, from the industrial revolution to the late 1900s. It emphasizes how technological, ideological, cultural, and social aspects have helped shape design as a profession and phenomenon.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
The student…
- has knowledge of the main lines of development in the history and theory of 19th- and 20th-century design
- has a basic understanding of how design as a profession and phenomenon has emerged as part of broader social development
- can identify different views on what characterizes designers’ knowledge and way of thinking
Skills:
The student…
- can reflect on the concept of ‘design’, and how design as activity, product and carrier of meaning is in a continuous process of interpretation
- has improved her/his writing skills in the genre of academic text
- has improved her/his ability to locate, gather and synthesise information
- has improved her/his ability to cite and reference sources and literature appropriately
General competence:
The student…
- has improved her/his analytical skills and capacity for critical reflection
- has improved her/his skills in editorial handling of text
Teaching methods
Lectures supplemented with group discussion, workshops, and film screenings. Writing an essay with formative assessment