Design Seminar I

Code:

SDI211

Acronym:

SDI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Communication Design

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S (of 10-02-2014 to 11-07-2014)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.giesteira.pt
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	23	Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação	3	-	4,5	64	121,5
			4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

. Leitmotif: “Design and Human Ecology - Topics for a project culture”;

. The classes will have an expository approach on key issues of design as an area of professional activity intrinsically related to the Project. The intervention of the designer considering the logic of the environment / human context and its environmental implications;

. Partners: Lipor.

Learning outcomes and competences

. Each of the structural issues will be decomposed into some of its sub-themes, in blocks of nine to ten classes, foreseeing each week a teacher's lecture supplemented by the intervention of a guest in the industry and / or environmental research area, whose project takes design as an added value in the final product, analyzing the role and implications of the designer’s decisions;

Working method

Presencial

Program

Themes
#1. Social responsibility
#2. Innovation;
#3. Sustainability.

Key sub-themes
# 1. Climate changes (data and medium term prospects);
# 2. Environmental law (context and orientation);
# 3. Energy (production and distribution costs; ecological footprint, R & D projects);
# 4. Water (medium-term prospects, treatment processes, R & D projects);
# 5. Waste (treatment, problems / difficulties; impacts; R & D projects);
# 6. Materials (impact, alternatives and efficiency; R & D projects);
# 7. Recycling (processes, difficulties and optimization; R & D projects);
# 8. Sustainable construction (new and dynamic solutions, R & D projects);
# 9. Case studies (good practices, examples and reasons, R & D projects);
# 10, # 11, # 12, # 13 Presentation and discussion of theoretical papers and practical projects with a more efficient reformulation of existing products for evaluation and publication (alongside the subjects exposed in the lectures) in an e-book updated annually in different editions to serve as collection and guidance to designers and others.

Mandatory literature

Arvill, Robert; Man and Environment, Penguin, 1967
Dormer, Peter; The Meanings of Modern Design – Towards the Twenty-First Century, Thames and Hudson, 1990
Mackenzie, Dorothy; Green Design – Design for the Environment , Laurence King, 1997
Papanek, Vitor; Design for the Real World – Human Ecology and Social Change, Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009
Watkin, David; Morality and Architecture, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977

Teaching methods and learning activities

. The classes will have an expository approach on key issues of design as an area of professional activity intrinsically related to the Project. The intervention of the designer considering the logic of the environment / human context and its environmental implications;

. Students should work in groups (up to four elements) on one of the key themes and sub themes of the discipline, with the aim of broadening, preferably using a case study, leading to a paper (12 pages, Springer formatting ) and a prototype able to foresee the most efficient reformulation of an existing product. Both components (theoretical and practical) will be publicly presented.

keywords

Technological sciences > Architecture > Design > Product design
Technological sciences > Architecture > Design > Environmental design

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	0,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	33,00
Frequência das aulas	33,00
Trabalho de investigação	33,00
Total:	99,00

Eligibility for exams

. As a discipline primarily expository, the evaluation of the student follows the scientific paper delivered (50%) and the relevance of the prototype (50%), assuming the public presentation as a compulsory and essential element in the understanding and validation of theoretical and practical component;

. Specific parameters (quality of the paper and additional prototype). Evaluation grid to be presented in the class presentation and published in the wiki’s course;

. Mandatory attendance at 75% of classes: 10 sessions;

. The approval of this course is conditional on obtaining 40% (8 values) to any of the components of the evaluation.

Calculation formula of final grade

. Scientific paper (50%) & prototype supplement (50%);

. This course, given its strong expository, is not subject to assessment in a single moment, so it can not be replaced by examination of written appeal.

Examinations or Special Assignments

. The non-participation in the cases referred in 75% of classes may require oral discussion of the evaluation elements presented, and the realization of a written test on the subjects of the course.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

. As provided in FBAUP Regulation Assessment.

Classification improvement

. Conducting theoretical and practical work.

Observations

. All the work must be presented to the Professor, otherwise you will not be considered in the classification process.