Design en Context (gLV) 

Annotating & Interrogating the design canon


Kategorie: Designgeschichte / Designtheorien /Gesellschaft / Politik / Soziales
Keywords: Decoloniality, Intersectional feminism, Plurliverse, Design Theory, Design History.

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Nummer und TypBDE-BDE-T-WP-4018.23F.001 / Moduldurchführung
ModulWahlpflichtmodul Theorie 4. Semester 
VeranstalterDepartement Design
LeitungCherry-Ann Davis
Zeit
Mo 20. Februar 2023 bis Mo 22. Mai 2023 / 15–17 Uhr
Anzahl Teilnehmende6 - 20
ECTS2 Credits
VoraussetzungenFor DDE Bachelor students:
None

For ZHdK students of other degree programms or specializations, binding enrollment takes place within the scope of the open lectures (gLV) from 30.1. - 12.2.23 via ClickEnroll https://intern.zhdk.ch/?clickenroll (limited number of places).

Participation may not overlap with other courses or must be agreed upon advance with the study secretariat responsible for the student.
LehrformSeminar
ZielgruppenBachelor Wahlpflichtseminar für Studierende im 4. Semester
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Students learn how to deal with academic texts from a variety of sources.
  • They become familiar with concepts in visual culture and decolonial studies as it intersects with culture and design.
  • They will be able to transfer these theoretical approaches to concrete design examples and problems.
  • They are able to develop a broader understanding of design from multiple perspectives.
InhalteThe story of Western design has been canonised but who and what is missing from that story? Where are the female designers? Did design happen beyond the West? How many stories were silenced or erased in the creation of a Westernised canon? Similar to the use of ‘en’ in the French language to denote time and location, in this case Design en Context explores design theory and history. We travel across time and locations to question and annotate the canon, adding context to things that may have been invisibilized.

Lectures include: the pluriverse and concepts of transculturality; culture: visual, material and otherwise; practices of research within indigenous knowledges and critical methodologies, decolonial views and views from the colony, praxis en reality.
Bibliographie / LiteraturAbdulla, D. (2022) Designerly ways of knowing a working inventory of things a designer should know. Eindhoven: Onomatopee.
Armstrong, H. (2012) Graphic design theory: Readings from the field. United States: Princeton Architectural Press.
Mareis, C., Paim, N. and Abdulla, D. (2021) Design struggles: Intersecting histories, pedagogies, and perspectives.
Helvert, M.van and Bandoni, A. (2019) The responsible object: A history of design ideology for the future. Amsterdam etc.: Samenwerkende Uitgevers VOF.
Amsterdam: Valiz. Mignolo, W.D., Walsh, C.E. and Mignolo, W.D. (2018) “Decoloniality is an option, not a mission,” in On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics and praxis. Durham: Duke University Press. Vázquez, R. (2021) Vistas of modernity decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary. Amsterdam: Mondriaan Fund.
Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung80% Anwesenheit, kurze Gruppenpräsentation im Plenum.
TermineEvery Monday from 20 February until 22 May 2023
No classes on 10 April / 1 May 2023
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