Course detail

Workshop - Diploma Seminar

FSI-YSLAcad. year: 2015/2016

Students work out analyses on theme of their diploma project. They describe sources and variations of their design, shape, color and graphic solution, ergonomic and technical aspects of their design, design solution, and other design features (economic, psychological, social). The students learn to present and defend their work and prepare a portfolio of their designs.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The analysis of design assignment, scientific assortment and making the supporting documentation of a design project, evaluation and analysis of the design, presentation of diploma work, and portfolio of own design creations.

Prerequisites

Knowledge in the range of finished Master´s degree and study of literature connected to a concrete diploma project is presupposed. The subject follows Pre-diploma Seminar and develops it further.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Creative work in ateliers.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: active participation in lectures, presentation of developed thesis and its submission.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course objective is to analyse the assignment of the diploma project and the theoretical bases. To make documentation, analysis and evaluation of the design, and to present own design work.

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

The attendance in workshop is controlled. Students have to be present in scheduled hours in the workshop, work on assigned projects and wait for consultation, unless a lecturer gives other individual plan. Students are obliged to inform the lecturer in advance about his/her working-place in the scheduled education time (studio, workshops, modelling room)- as absence is not excused without this information. The excuse of absence is possible only due serious reasons such as illness. Unexcused absence may jeopardise accepting a project.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Byars M.: Design Encyclopedia. - München : Klinkhardt+Biermann, 1994.
Johnson M.: Problem solved. - London : Phaidon, 2002.
Laurel B.: Design Research, Methods and Perspectives. - Cambridge : MIT, 2003.

Recommended reading

Black R.: Desktop Design power. - New York : Bantam Books, 1991.
Ecco, U.: Jak napsat diplomovou práci.
Lidwell W.: Universal Principles of Design. - Gloucester : Rockport, 2003.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N3901-2 Master's

    branch M-PDS , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Dana Rubínová, Ph.D.
Ing. Markéta Zdvihalová

Syllabus

1 Introduction to the course, requirements, deadlines;
2-4 Presentation preparation;
5-12 Public presentation of a current solution of a diploma work;
13 Final requirements for the diploma work handing over.