Course Code: 
INDD 321
Course Period: 
Autumn
Course Type: 
Core
Theory: 
2
Practice: 
0
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
2
ECTS: 
4
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Course Coordinator: 
Pınar CARTIER
Courses given by: 
Pınar CARTIER
Course Assistants : 
Melis KARACA SERT
Course Objectives: 
The aim of this course is to explain the contents of design processes in industrial product design, to be informed about systematic problem solving methods, to investigate the methods of defining the design problem and to discuss the theoretical, theoretical approaches to explain the situations that designer candidates may encounter in all areas of their professional practice and to equip them in terms of theoretical approaches.
Course Content: 

It covers different approaches, methods applied in the Industrial Design process as of today, and information and researches to determine the trends that have an important place in product design.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, B: Presentation, C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1) Understand the relationship between Industrial design and related disciplines.

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

2) To be able to investigate the research methods about the design problem and to be informed of the systematical problem solving methods

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

3) To declare the processes of  Industrial Product Design

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

4) To develop research, observation skills.

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

5) Students gain the ability of abstract thinking on design and spatial organization.

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

6) To discuss and develop theoretical approaches that can be met in the profession area of Industrial Design

 

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

7) Students gain the ability to see the design product as a whole; analyze and synthesize them

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

The idea of Design and the definitions of design

 

2

The design concept, the relation of “need” and “design”

 

3

New product development. To discuss the topic “ to re-design”

Design process- production process 

 

4

The concept of Sustainability in Design, an assessment about

Product Life-cycle and the factors during the process

 

5

Design and Methods

Semiotics and Design, Phenomenology and Design, hermeneutics and developments in design methods

 

6

Design and Theory

Design Theory Discipline, Design Functions: Communication, aesthetic, symbolic.

 

7

MID TERM –Presentations

 

8

Evaluation of the assessment “ sustainability”. To demonstrate a method of the design process.

 

9

Future Directions in Design

 

10

Globalisation and Design

 

11

MID TERM –Presentations

 

12

Design and its context

Service design, strategic design, Architecture and design, trends.

 

13

Culture, Design Culture,Semiotics, Value, Product Identity

Discussion towards the samples

 

14

“Problem description” in the design process and theoratical approach.

 “Contemporary enviroment and product design” sampling and analysis.

 

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Textbook

 

Additional Resources

Bürdek, Bernhard, 2005, Design History, Theory and Practice of Product Design.

Bayazıt, Nigan, 2008, Tasarımı Anlamak, İdeal Kültür Yayıncılık; İstanbul.

Bayazıt, Nigan, Tasarlama Kuramları ve Metodları.

Sparke, Penny, Indroduction to Design and Culture:1900 to present.

Woodham , M. Jonathan, 1997. Twentieth –Century Design

 

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING
Documents  
Assignments Assignments  ( 1 )
Exams Midterm (1), final (1)

Assessment

ASSESSMENT

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

50

Quizzes

-

-

Homework

1

50

Total

2

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

Total

2

100

 

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

  

1

 Learn to use the different disciplines’ methods within the concepts and theories of design field and also to determine and solve the encountered problems of design.

      

X

    

2

To constitute contemporary technological knowledge that is required  in the field of design and to access the level of managing.

      

X

    

3

To constitute and interpret the historical knowledge required in the field of art and design.

    

X

      

4

To be sufficient to design product, system and processes within the discipline of Industrial Design.

        

X

  

5

To study interdisciplinary.

    

X

      

6

To have and to implement the knowledge of materials and production techniques within the field of design.

X

          

7

To be able to think 2D and  3D and also to be able to expose visually.

X

          

8

To   achieve the knowledge of different disciplines such as Management, Law, Communication, Engineering,  Sociology, Physics, Anthropology and Human Sciences in order to  be able to understand, interpret and utilize within the field of Industrial design.

      

X

    

9

To have the ethical consciousness and responsibility in design.

    

X

      

 

From ENTAK Program Outcomes correspond to PO7,PO10 and PO11

 

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)

15

2

30

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

15

4

60

Mid-terms

1

2

2

Homework

1

5

5

Final examination

1

2

2

Total Work Load

 

 

99

Total Work Load / 30 (h)

 

 

3.96

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

4

 

3
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