Course detail

Workshop - Industrial Design IV

FSI-YA4-AAcad. year: 2011/2012


The course is concerned with an interdisciplinary co-operation that integrates the knowledge of the science, technology and arts in the design process of any industrial product. During the semester students are given assignments for a specific product design. The design project is documented by drawing sketches, plan documentation, perspective views, and a three-dimensional model of final solution.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

10

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will be able to solve elementary and more difficult projects when designing industrial products and to present their work.

Prerequisites

Completion of courses Industrial Design I, II, and III is assumed. Students are expected to have mastered both the drawing and moulding as well as the knowledge of spatial creation, art composition and realisation of three-dimensional models. Students are also expected to have the knowledge of the design solution of primitive industrial products. Knowledge of program Rhino, Photoshop or Corel Draw is desirable.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: attendance at lessons, handing over assigned projects by the deadline in a sufficient quality. Presentation of an elaborated project. Design and the level of presentation of each project are evaluated separately.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on projects and exclusive tasks. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim is to familiarize students with problems of solving a design problem and to develop already acquired skills and habits. Students learn how to apply their own invention with respecting all conditions of the product.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The attendance in workshop education is controlled. Student has to be present in scheduled hours in the schoolroom, work on given projects and wait for consultation, unless a lecturer gives any other individual plan. Student has to inform the lecturer in advance about his working-place in the scheduled education time (studio, workshops, modeling room, eventually college dormitory, home, or producer etc.) – absence is not excused without this information. The excuse of absence is possible only due similar reasons as by work law, e.g. illness. Unexcused absence can lead to give no accepting of project. When total absence is greater than 50% (including excused absence), final project (without obligatory consultations) may not be accepted for impossibility of project solving reasons, and compensatory assigning is not possible.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Carlotte & Peter Fiell: Designing the 21st Century
Carlotte & Peter Fiell: Industrial Design A-Z, Taschen 2000
John Heskett: Industrial Design, Thames a Hudson, 1980
Newbury S,: Auta: Design pro nové tisíciletí 1 a 2,Knižní klub 2002

Recommended reading

Dušan Šindelář: Estetika užité tvorby
Periodikuim: Design trend 1992-2004
Periodikum: DESIGN IN, Vyd.: Design Slovakia
V.A.Danilenko: Osnovi Dizajnu

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N3901-2 Master's

    branch M-PDS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory