HISTORY, THEORY, AND CRITICISM IN DESIGN (ENGLISH, PHD) | |||||
PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
HTC6103 | Design Culture | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. NİLAY ÜNSAL GÜLMEZ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | There are no optional program components |
Course Objectives: | This course aims at developing a general knowledge over the way of thinking in design culture and flourishing critical debates on form paradigms. It intends to understand the history of design/form in relation to subject object dichotomy and discuss the theoretical background of knowledge and design through the main lines of scientific and artistic developments that are the milestones in the transformation of form. The course studies the interrelationships between history and theory. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; A student completing this course 1.Develops a holistic perception in apprehension of design as a culture 2.Be able to interpret and participate contemporary debates on transformation of knowledge and form production. 3.Discuss main lines of scientific and artistic developments in relation to design 4.Improve academic writing and thinking skills |
Thresholds, translations and transformations of design culture and education will be investigated and discussed throughout the semester. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the scope of the course | |
2) | Thresholds in The Evolution of Design Culture (I) Mind-Body-Space-Time Relations | Stephen Kern, 2003. Excerpts from The Culture of Time-Space, Harvard Univ. Press |
3) | Thresholds in The Evolution of Design Culture (II) Mind-Body-Space-Time Relations | David Farrell Krell, 1997. Architecture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body, State Univ. of NY |
4) | Thresholds in The Evolution of Design Culture (III) Mind-Body-Space-Time Relations | Michael Hensel, Christhopher Hight, Achim Menges (ed.), 2009. Excerpts from Space Reader. Heterogeneous Space in Architecture, Wiley. |
5) | Translation of Visual Culture (I) Theory and Concept of Translation(I) | John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte, 1992. Excerpts form Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dyden to Derrida, University of Chicago Press |
6) | Translation of Visual Culture (II) Reciprocal experiences in Europe and Turkey (II) | Esra Akcan, 2012. Excerpts from Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House, Duke University Press Books. |
7) | Tasarım Eğitiminde Çeviri/Etkileşimler | Mervyn Romans,2005. Histories of Art and Design Education Excerpts from . Collected Essays, Intellect Books |
8) | The Concept of “Minor” in Design | Jill Stoner, 2012. Toward a Minor Architecture, the MIT Press. |
9) | Kafkan Space | Benjamin, “Franz Kafka” in Illuminations ed. Hannah Arendt trans Herry Zohn (NY: Schocken Books, 1969). |
10) | Interdisciplinary encounters | Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian, 2007. Excerpts from Critical Architecture, Routledge. |
11) | Student presentations Discussion | |
12) | Student presentations Submission of student papers | |
13) | Critics on student papers | |
14) | Submission of revised papers and presentation Discussion |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | gerektiğinde verilir will be given when necessary |
References: | Stoner, Jill. Towards a minor Architecure, The MIT Press, 2012. Eck van C. and Winters E. (ed.) Dealing with the Visual: Art History, aesthetics and visual culture, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Akcan, E. Excerpts from Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House , Duke University Press Books, 2012. Gelernter, M., Sources of Architectural Form, New York: Manchester University Press, 1995 Honour, H. and Fleming, J. , The Visual Arts: A History, Englewood Cliffs:Prentice Hall Inc, 1982 Hollis, E., Milligan, A., Milton, A., Plunkett, D. and Gigli, J. and Hay, F., Thinking Inside the Box: A Reader in Interiors for the 21st Century. Middlesex University, 2007. Margolin, V., Design Discourse. History. Theory . Criticism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Rendell, J, Hill, Jonathan, Fraser, M and Dorrian, M. Excerpts from Critical Architecture, Routledge, 2007 Hensel, M, Hight, C, Menges, A (ed.), Excerpts from Space Reader. Heterogeneous Space in Architecture, Wiley, 2009. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 30 |
Presentation | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 96 |
Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 20 |
Homework Assignments | 11 | 98 |
Total Workload | 256 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | to be able to pursue independent academic research work in his/her field of study/specialization. | |
2) | to be able to conduct interdisciplinary researches based on specific methods in his/her own formulation | |
3) | to be able to disseminate research results by means of scientific meetings and through referred papers in international publications. | |
4) | to be able to follow up the state of the art information processing technologies related with her/his field of specialization. | |
5) | to be able to act as refree/problem solver in the case of national/international problems of his/her field of specialization. |