Project Methodologies

Code:

MP301

Acronym:

MP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Communication Design

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S (of 09-09-2013 to 07-02-2014)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Communication Design

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DC	54	Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação	4	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To provide the students with a constructive and strategic capacity of their creative work and communication. To promote the construction of projectual repertoires and the reflexion of paradigmatic cases of visual communication. Testing new models and structures of creativity individually or in team.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that the students at the end of the semester should be autonomous in building a methodological system that responds to the challenges posed on the semester project semester. This should be achieved through the preparation of a report and graphic artifacts attesting the individual project methodology used for a real visual communication problem - New imagery solutions for Ramos Pinto.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Project methodologies will converge curricular repertoires and extra-curricular activities in structuring processes to support the creative act. The students are assumed as structuring agents and the body of creative practice. A forum for discussion and monitoring of its different issues involved. Thus, Project methodologies will articulates the following vectors: 
 1. Explanations of principles and strategies of graphic design projects.
 2. Application of these principles to the projectual practices of students 
 3. Analysis of these concrete projectual practices.

Mandatory literature

AUDREY, Bennett; Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design - A Reader, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
CLARK, Hazel; BRODY, David; Design Studies - A Reader, Berg, 2009
LAUREL,Brenda; LUNEFELD, Peter; Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, The MIT Press, 2003
NOBLE, Ian; BESTLEY, Russel; Visual Research - An introduction to research methodologies in graphic design, Ava Academia, 2005
Rose Gillian; Visual methodologies. ISBN: 978-1-4129-2191-6
Deacon David 070; Researching communications. ISBN: 0-340-59685-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

Project methodologies will follow this stucture: 1. Lectures 2. Collective project 3. Discussion forum for the different steps of the semester project.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	50,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation process is ongoing and will result from the sum of practical and theoretical experiences demonstrated by students during the semester. There will be a group project of two students each that will be evaluated three times in the semester, culminating with the final presentation of a report containing methodology and research. It will be used the methods of evaluation provided by the RREA of FBAUP following this parameters (described in summary form): Attendance, Participation, Creativity, Research and Responses to the objectives.