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FaVU-1DTD2Acad. year: 2024/2025
The lecture series will present the basic themes, personalities and concepts of the history and theory of design from a global and local perspective (the Czech lands and Central Europe) approximately between 1918 and 1950. The cycle will have a combined form: lectures will be complemented by seminars focused on current topics related to the lectures and reading, analysis and interpretation of key texts. In addition to the topics of the lectures, the seminar classes will discuss cross-cutting, central topics of design theory, such as the relationship between form and function, relationship to the environment, environmental responsibility, exhibiting design, education for design, (re)organization of life, taste/kitsch, production relations, etc.
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Entry knowledge
Knowledge acquired in History and Theory of Design Course 1.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
For passing the course there are the following conditions:
Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the FFA BUT in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory (2 unexcused absences allowed). Higher number of absences can be compensated by submitting an alternative assignment after agreement with the teachers.
Aims
The aim of the course is to introduce important personalities, works, artistic groups, programs, institutions and key texts of European and North American design from the years 1918-1950 and present contemporary thinking about design and characterize key contemporary and contemporary texts. Students will be able to characterize basic development tendencies, key historical events, works of canonical creators, groups and institutions.
Completion of the course should help students strengthen the ability of analytical thinking, conduct interdisciplinary dialogue and articulate a critical view of the canon of design history and theory and its practice in the present.
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