Description
GS7010 | Introduction to Design Cultures
Design Cultures is intended to survey the field of design as a human activity, and to introduce students to the immense variety of pathways available to students as they move ahead in the world as a designer and as an architect. The aims of the class are to expose students to a broad range of design work in the fields of furniture, architecture, interior space, set design, exhibition design, product design, and landscape; to give them a broad historical background of design activity, aesthetic epochs, and styles; and to develop in them the eye and senses of the curious and critical observer of the products of design culture.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Research and Sourcing. To provide an understanding of the scope of design work, and to provide students with research rubrics for conducting design work.
Conscious Causality. To survey the formal, organizational, and material strategies characteristic of the work of historical epochs of design.