Course detail

Design History and Theory 3

FaVU-1DTD3Acad. 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 1950 and 1990. 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.

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge acquired in History and Theory of Design Courses 1 and 2.

 

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

For passing the course there are the following conditions:

  • Active presence (50 % attendance)
  • 50 % correct answers in an exam test.
 

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 1950-1990 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.

 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Daniela Karasová, Geneze designu nábytku, Praha 2012
Knobloch, Iva – Vondráček, Radim (eds.), Design v českých zemích 1900-2000: Instituce moderního designu, Praha 2016
Kolesár, Zdeno, Kapitoly z dějin designu, Bratislava 2000
Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Martina Pachmanová, Jitka Ressová, Zlínská umprumka (1959–2011), Praha 2013
Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Tiché revoluce uvnitř ornamentu, Praha 2012
Milena Bartlová – Jindřich Vybíral (eds.), Budování státu / Building a State: Reprezentace Československa v umění, architektuře a designu / The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Art, Architecture and Design, Praha 2015
Noël Rileyová, Dějiny užitého umění, Praha 2004
Pavla Rossini, Jiří Pelcl (eds.), Století dánské a české nábytkové tvorby: konvergence, divergence, Praha 2018
Philip Wilkinson, Design: Vrcholy světového designu 19. a 20. století, Praha 2014
Sparke, Penny, Století designu, Praha 2002

Recommended reading

Daniela Karasová, Dějiny nábytkového umění 19. a 20. století (4.díl), Praha 2000
Jiří Uhlíř, Michael Thonet – rodina a firma, Praha 2021
Kolesár, Zdeno, Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu, Bratislava 2006

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DES_B Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.
Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

    • From Gaming Tables to Arcades: The Prehistory of Gaming Media
    • Richard Buckminster Fuller: Utopia, Futurism and Postwar Production
    • Mid-century modernism and corporate branding: Graphic, interior, and product design in the United States
    • Late Modern Design: East vs. West
    • Organics, environment and punk: new currents in global design of the 70s and 80s
    • Italian design from Gio Ponti to the Memphis Group
    • Scandinavian design: centers and receptions
    • New wave in Czechoslovak graphic design: Kaplický, Hlavsa, Rathouský, Vaněk
 

Seminar

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.