| Course Name | Current Topics in Art and Design |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| FFD 502 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The course aims to introduce the recent developments, theoretical framework and concepts of art and design practice in a historical perspective. As articulated and presented by six members of teaching faculty in Fine Arts and Design, the students are expected to participate in discussions on varied topics like the current issues in photography, late modernism and contemporary artistic practices, current themes in architectural historiography, the issues related to the history of industrial design. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The main content of this course are the issues of research and ways of writing the histories of different disciplines of arts and design. Specifying and defining certain species of art and design objects, contextualizing design activity and to elaborating on their historical conditions as the concern of our times, are the main ingredients of this seminar. |
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| Supportive Courses | X | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction, outline of the course | No preparation |
| 2 | What is the contemporary? | G. Agamben, “What is the contemporary,” in: G. Agamben, What is an apparatus? and other essays, Stanford 2009, pp. 39-54. Prepare three statements based on this text |
| 3 | Progress in design | J. Langrish, ‘Darwinian change: design from disaster’, in: T.Balcioglu (ed.), EAD 2007 conference proceedings, Izmir 2007, pp. 856-861; Homework 1: Compare the theories of Agamben and Langrish as to how they see the role of the designer in achieving good design in a 500 word essay |
| 4 | Review of the Semester | |
| 5 | Industrial Design | A.Mattozzi | A model for the Semiotic Analysis of Objects, Design Semiotics in Use, Helsinki 06/06-08/07 (presentation 1) |
| 6 | Architectural Duality | T. Islam, “Current urban discourse. Urban transformation and gentrification in Istanbul,” Architectural Design 80 (1), 2010, pp. 58-63. J. Authier en S Lehman-Frisch, Le gout des autres. Gentrification told by children, Urban studies 50 (5) 2013, pp. 994-1010 (presentation 1) |
| 7 | Fashion Design | Kilicbay, M Binark, “Consumer culture, Islam and the politics of lifestyle: Fashion for veiling in contemporary Turkey,” European Journal of Communication 17 (2002), pp. 495-511 (presentation 1) |
| 8 | Visual and Communication Design | C. Kowalsky Dougherty, “The coloring of Jazz: Race and record cover design in American jazz, 1950-1970, Design Issues 23, nr. 1 (2007), pp. 47-60 A. Kuryel, “Commodification of Nationalist Imagery:Fetishes of Everyday Life,” in: Martin Fredriksson (ed.), Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, June 15–17, Norrköping, Sweden 2011, pp. 305-311. http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/062/ecp11062.pdf Ivo Furman & Can Sungu, “Aesthetics and Fantasy of Kemalist Nationalism in New Media,” in: Martin Fredriksson (ed.), Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, June 15–17, Norrköping, Sweden 2011, pp. 313-330 (presentation 1) |
| 9 | Interior Design | Tba (presentation 1) |
| 10 | Literature research preparation | |
| 11 | İndividual meetings | |
| 12 | No class | |
| 13 | Presentation2 | |
| 14 | Presentation2 | |
| 15 | Overall evaluation | |
| 16 | Overall evaluation |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Articles and chapters chosen by the lecturers |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | None |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 16 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 40 |
| Project | 1 | 30 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 11 | 8 | 88 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 3 | 17 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 17 | |
| Project | 1 | 19 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 240 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | to be able to expand the practical knowledge gained in undergraduate programs with theoretical field of design research, | X | ||||
| 2 | to be able to examine, interpret data and assess concepts and ideas with research methods of design theory and social sciences, | X | ||||
| 3 | to be able to identify problems of design disciplines in times of global / environmental crisis and to be able to develop possible solutions for design practitioners, | X | ||||
| 4 | to be able to expand knowledge on the history of material culture as it relates to design practices of the past, | X | ||||
| 5 | to be able to promote research on local practices of everyday life and assess the outcome to implement design solutions, | X | ||||
| 6 | to be able to facilitate interactions in between varied design disciplines and to promote collaborative work to solve complex problems, | X | ||||
| 7 | to be able to process outcome of design research to be applied in design education, | X | ||||
| 8 | to be able to instigate research on the new tools, technologies and materials of production in order to accelerate changes in design practices, | X | ||||
| 9 | to be able to develop an ethical approach towards design professions in order to install social and environmental responsibilities, | X | ||||
| 10 | to be able to use a foreign language for both chasing the scientific publication and developing proper communication with colleagues from other countries, in written and verbal ways. | X | ||||
| 11 | to be able to use computer programs needed in the field design as well as information and communication technologies in advanced levels (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level”). | |||||
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