Course detail

Workshop - Industrial Design IV

FSI-YA4-AAcad. year: 2015/2016

The aim of the course is the view on designer’s work as integrated cooperation with knowledge of technology, art and science in the design process of each industrial product. There are assigned specific design projects of the product with more complex function and construction to the students. Main themes of the design projects come from an area of transport design, for example: vehicles, special vehicles, construction machinery, agricultural machinery – tractors, etc. An appropriate project is also for example larger technological unit - scrap yard, water purifier production line etc. The main output of student´s work except technical drawings is a maquette of final design solution in appropriate scale. Topics of smaller secondary task respond to both, requests from external producers, and design contests.
The course has been upgraded with the support of the OPVK project. "The Studio digital sculpture and new media project", reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0278, is co-financed by the European Social Fund and the statebudget of the Czech Republic

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

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

Creative work in ateliers.

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

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