Objectives and competences
- The students obtain information on basic development and styles in the field of modern and contemporary design;
- they understand the basic problems of sustainable contemporary design
- they obtain the knowledge about techniques, materials, terminology
- they explore artifacts in museums, galleries and designer studios
- they analyse and evaluate contemporary design production
Content (Syllabus outline)
I. History of applied arts in 19th century (empire, classicism, Biedermayer, Historism, Secession, emergence and development of modernism)
II. Theory of applied arts and model workshop (Wiener Werkstätte, Werkbund, etc.).
1. Theoretics (Great Britain, France, Austria, Germany, USA)
2. Producers, materials, characteristics
III. Modenr design: Bauhaus
IV. Modenr design in Slovenia and Europe
V. Visits to museum collections, ateliers of designers, exhibitions
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures with projection
- seminar works and their presentation
- tutorial: exhibitions, visits to ateliers of designers
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
-the student will list basic reasons for the emerging of modern and contemporary design;
-the student will list, explain, classify the flows of contemporary unique and industrial design;
-the student will list, define, explain the methods of work, materials and terminology;
-the student will know, describe, interpret works of contemporary design
-the student will write critiques and grades for works in the field of applied arts and design
-the student will know, define, explain the work in galleries of contemporary design
-the student will explain and interpret the works of contemporary design in the context of modern and contemporary arts.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- the students will be qualified for analysis, attribution and validation of works of contemporary design
- capability of writing critiques and grades for works in the field of applied arts and design
- capability for work in galleries of contemporary design
- adopted knowledge will enable wide understanding of modern and contemporary arts
Readings
Katalog BIO 26 - Skupno znanje, Ljubljana 2020
Designing Everyday Life, Ljubljana 2012
Niko Kralj, Neznani znani oblikovalec, Ljubljana 2011
Oblikovanje republike: arhitektura, oblikovanje in fotografija v Sloveniji 1991 - 2011, Ljubljana 2011
Silent revolutions, sodobno oblikovanje v Sloveniji, Ljubljana 2011
Iskra: neuvrščeno oblikovanje 1946 - 1990, Ljubljana 2009
Nicolaus Pevsner, The Pioneers of Modern design, London 2005
Victor Papanek, Design for real world, London 2019
Adrian Forty, Objects of Desire (Design and Society 1750 – 1980), London 1986
Gabriele Fahr - Becker, Wiener Werkstätte, 1903 - 1932, Köln 2008
Frank Whithaus, Bauhaus, New York, 2019
Prerequisits
No special prerequisites.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - seminar work with presentation
- oral exam
(Positive grade of seminar work is obligatory for access to oral exam.)
