Narratives and Industrial Design

Code: ΕΡ 242

Semester: 3

ECTS: 6

Course Instructor: Elisavet Kiourtsoglou

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This workshop guides students to understand and apply basic principles of object design. It is thought and designed specially for students without prior knowledge of design tools (such as design history, technical drawing skills, etc.). By using wider artistic practices (collage, constructions, etc.), the workshop seeks to define different types of “narratives” as fundamental design methodologies. What is our relationship with consumption, and what does it reflect about the cultural framework we belong to? How does materiality determine construction? What role do the “stories” of objects play, and how do subjects connect with them? What sounds do objects make, and what stories do they tell us? The workshop exercises may vary each year, depending on the topic and the examples under examination.

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• BAUDRILLARD Jean, Le Système des objets, Paris : Gallimard, 1968.
• Bourdieu Pierre, Η διάκριση. Κοινωνική Κριτική της Καλαισθητικής Κρίσης, Αθήνα: Εκδ. Πατάκη, 2013.
• Roland Barthes, Το μπλε είναι φέτος στη μόδα. Κείμενα για την ένδυση και τη μόδα, Αθήνα: Εκδ. Πλέθρον
• GUIDOT Raymond, Histoire du design de 1940 à nos jours, Paris : Ed.Hazan, 2004.
• Ingold Tim, Making: Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, London: Routledge, 2010.
• SPIELMANN Max, BAHTSETZIS Sotirios, Post–industrial Design.Our standpoint. Institute HypeWerk. Basel : Verlag Hyperwerk, 2013
• Colomina Beatriz, Wigley Mark (ed.), Are we human? Notes on a archaeology of design. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2016.
• CHIN Elizabeth, My life with Things. The consumer diaries, Durham: The Duke University Press, 2016.