"Seed Cathedral" Shanghai World Expo 2010, Thomas Heatherwick
Design in Context explores the many ways in which design and technology mediate and contribute to changes—social, cultural, personal, political, and ecological—in the human environment. To understand and contextualise these engagements, this course will focus on core issues and ideas found at the intersections of design and culture—presently and historically. Investigating these nexus points and looking for common threads connecting design thinking historically, DSDN171 will consider such themes as: the curve and the straight line, design as cultural reform, the crime of ornament, standardisation/rationalisation, modernity, media, and 'modern vision'; as well as the debates around craft and design, teechnology, and post-modernity and 'remix' cultures. Please review the course outline for details of lecture and tutorial times as well as course aims and expectations (including hand-in dates).
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