2023
Processes and Design Methods
Name: Processes and Design Methods
Code: VIS14186M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Design
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This Course Unit establishes an interdisciplinary relationship with Project I, to promote the exploration of various design itineraries and Design methods to explore its advantages and limits.
The knowledge, skills and competences are developed at a high level of complexity to be applied to the R&D in Design.
a. Be able to anticipate an itinerary that includes the identification of Design methods to be used (which, why and when);
b. Know how to organize a document that systematizes and bases, in the temporal arc of a Design process, the key moments, actions, actors, selected Design methods and the expected inputs and outputs;
ç. Know how to summon and discuss the critical apparatus suitable for argumentation;
d. Know how to communicate in all discursive dimensions;
e. Confirm the operability of several design itineraries and design methods for the process and the results in Project I.
The knowledge, skills and competences are developed at a high level of complexity to be applied to the R&D in Design.
a. Be able to anticipate an itinerary that includes the identification of Design methods to be used (which, why and when);
b. Know how to organize a document that systematizes and bases, in the temporal arc of a Design process, the key moments, actions, actors, selected Design methods and the expected inputs and outputs;
ç. Know how to summon and discuss the critical apparatus suitable for argumentation;
d. Know how to communicate in all discursive dimensions;
e. Confirm the operability of several design itineraries and design methods for the process and the results in Project I.
Contents
The syllabus contents of this Course Unit constitute the theoretical support for the Design processes to be developed in Project I. They contribute to explore and experiment with several methodological / procedural approaches in Design, aiming to achieve disruptive results.
1. Design-Inspired Itineraries:
FAQ; Design Strategies; Design Processes; Linear and non-linear itineraries in Design;
2. Design methods;
3. Innovation in Design;
Inspiration; Speculation; Improvisation; Disruption; Fiction; Dream; Utopia; Idea; Imaginary; Extrapolation; (Im)Possible Futures;
4. Experimentation in Design:
Mapping of related ideas.
1. Design-Inspired Itineraries:
FAQ; Design Strategies; Design Processes; Linear and non-linear itineraries in Design;
2. Design methods;
3. Innovation in Design;
Inspiration; Speculation; Improvisation; Disruption; Fiction; Dream; Utopia; Idea; Imaginary; Extrapolation; (Im)Possible Futures;
4. Experimentation in Design:
Mapping of related ideas.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, debate, individual tutorial monitoring, discussion raised by the status of the work developed by the students, exploration and simulation of cases, viewing and debating videos and films, solving concrete problems, viewing other relevant iconographic material and classes in context.
Rating criteria:
1. Evidence of speculation and critical reflection skills in the Design itinerary (20%);
2. Elaboration of the itinerary design and identification and selection of the Design Methods most appropriate to the proposed Project (from abstract to concrete) (20%);
3. Confirmation and argumentation about the operationality of the design itinerary and the Design methods for the process and for the results in Project I (20%);
4. Know how to communicate in all discursive dimensions (20%);
5. Global quality; potential to Be Innovation (20%).
See the Course Unit Brief.
Rating criteria:
1. Evidence of speculation and critical reflection skills in the Design itinerary (20%);
2. Elaboration of the itinerary design and identification and selection of the Design Methods most appropriate to the proposed Project (from abstract to concrete) (20%);
3. Confirmation and argumentation about the operationality of the design itinerary and the Design methods for the process and for the results in Project I (20%);
4. Know how to communicate in all discursive dimensions (20%);
5. Global quality; potential to Be Innovation (20%).
See the Course Unit Brief.
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