| Course Name | Narratives in Art and Design |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| FFD 651 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Third Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The course which aims to interpret and semantify artifacts, design objects and experiences, focuses on the acts of reading and writing within the context of art and design. By deciphering different mediums of art and design in an interdisciplinary frame, the course involves the analysis of narratives and cross narratives related to artifacts, design objects and experiences. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course involves theoritical and critical analysis which leads particularly modern and post-structural view within the frame of narrative and cross-narratives of artifacts, designb objects and experiences. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course | None |
| 2 | Memorialism and Transitivity/ intro to assign.1 | Baudelaire, Charles . “The Painter of Modern Life : Contanstin Guys “. The Painter of Victorian Life. Ed.Holme, Geoffrey.The Studio Ltd.London,1930 |
| 3 | Aura and Reproduction | Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility”.Ed: Jennings, Micheal., Doherty, B.,Levin, Thomas |
| 4 | Memory and Identity/ intro to assignment 2 | Berger, John. “ The Suit and the Photograph” .Uses of Photography: About Looking.s.27-47.Pantheon books, New York , Film screening: Notebook On Cities and Clothes, Wim Wenders/ hand in assign 1 |
| 5 | Hermeneutics | Heidegger, Martin. “ The Origin of Work of Art”. Off the Beaten Track, Ed.Çeviri: Young, Julian., Haynes , Kennith.Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| 6 | Discourse &Spatial Continuity / intro to assign 2 | Foucault, Michel. “Las Meninas.” In The Order of Things, pp. 1-18. London, New York: Routledge, 2002. |
| 7 | Institutional Art and Critical Discourse | Bourdieu, Henry. “ Manet and the Institutionalization of Anomie”.The Field of Cultural Production.Polity Press,Cambridge, s.238-251, 1993/ hand in assign 2 |
| 8 | Image and the Representation (Cross narratives)/ intro to assignment 3 | Lombardo, Patrizia. “The Image Versus the Visible : From Baudelaire to Painter of Modern Life to David Lynch’s Lost Highway” Cities , Words and Images. s.174-186, Palgrave McMillan , New York , 2003. Film screening : David Lynch. The Lost Highway |
| 9 | Students’ presentations 1 | Seminar / Reading and Analysis of an Exhibition |
| 10 | Transgressions (Cross narratives) | Krauss, R. “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”. October, Vol. 8. (Spring, 1979), pp. 30-44. / hand in assign 3 |
| 11 | Deconstruction and Memory/ intro to assignment 4 | Evans, Caroline. “ The Golden Dustman: A critical Evaluation of Martin Margiela and the review of Martin Margiela Exhibition(9/4/1615) Fashion Theory 2/1 March 1998 |
| 12 | Intersections: Subject-Object / intro to assignment 5 | Ayers, Robert “Serene and Happy and Distant: Interview with Orlan. Body and Society.Special Issue on: Body Modification. 5/2-3 .1999 .Ed: Mike Featherstone, Sage.( hand in assignment 4 |
| 13 | Descriptive Analysis / intro to assignment 6 | On the relation Contemporary Art and Design / hand in assignment 5 |
| 14 | Discursive Analysis / intro to assignment 7 | Reading and Analysis of a Bienniale/ hand in assignment 6 |
| 15 | Students’ presentations | Discussions/ hand in assignment 7 |
| 16 | Evaluation of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Given above |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | -Eisenman, Peter. Written into the Void: Selected Writings 1990-2004. China: World Print, 2007. -Everett, Sally. Art, Theory and Criticism: An Anthology of Formalist, Avant-Garde, Contextualist and Post-Modernist Thought. North Carolina: McFarland, 1991. -Krauss, Rosalind, Optical Unconscious. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 1994. Oxford University Press, 1998. -Pinto, Roberto., Bourraid, Nicolas Lucy Orta .Phaidon 1998. -Rendell, Jane. Art and Architecture: A Place between.Tauris, London,2010. -Paulicelli, Eugenia.,Clark, Hazel .The Fabric of Cultures .Routledge.London.2009. -Margolin, Victor. Design Discourse. The University of Chicago Press.London.1989. -Fausch, Deborah., Singley, Paulette. Architecture in fashion.Princeton Architectural Press.1994. -Hughes, Clair.Dressed in Fiction.Berg, Oxford.2006. -Lehman , Ulrich. Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity, MIT press.2000. -Barthes, Roland .Camera Lucida.1980. -Hiddleston, J.A. Baudelaire and the Art of the Memory.Clarendon Press, Oxford.1999. -Bloom, Harold .Marcel Proust.Chalsea House publishers. 2004. -Debord, Guy.Society of the Spectacle.Zone Books.1994. -Heidegger, Martin. “ The Origin of Work of Art”. Off the Beaten Track,2002. -Bourdieu, Henry. The Field of Cultural Production.Polity Press,Cambridge, , 1993. -Foucault, Michel. ,The Order of Things, London, New York: Routledge, 2002 |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 16 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 7 | 70 |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 20 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 100 | |
| 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 | 0 | ||
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 7 | 18 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 25 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 224 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | to be able to develop scientific expertise and capabilities in the field of design studies by using creative and critical thinking as well as research skills; innovatively contributing to the discipline through new ideas, | X | ||||
| 2 | to be able to comprehend the interaction across various disciplines related to the field of design reaching at original conclusions via using new and complex analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills, | X | ||||
| 3 | to be able to develop new strategic approaches to solve unforeseen complex issues in design practice through integrative and creative elaboration, | X | ||||
| 4 | to be able to conduct independent research, analyze scientific phenomena through a broad, deep and critical perspective, arrive at new syntheses and evaluations in design discipline, | X | ||||
| 5 | to be able to publish scientific articles in reputable refereed journals, present papers in scientific conferences in the field of design and its sub-disciplines, | X | ||||
| 6 | to be able to develop effective communication skills to scientifically present and defend original ideas to an expert audience, | X | ||||
| 7 | to be able to conduct affective team work in the field of design, | X | ||||
| 8 | to be able to use the English language fluently for both comprehending scientific publications and developing proper communication with foreign colleagues, | X | ||||
| 9 | to be able to contribute to the process of transforming into an " information society", by following the technological, social and cultural developments on both academic and professional grounds continuously, | X | ||||
| 10 | to be able to develop skills of designing and producing unique models and products that will be certificated as registered design, trade mark and patents. | X | ||||
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