ART 108 - History of Industrial Design: Globalization and Cultural Product Design

5 Credits

We will examine mass-produced goods throughout history, including objects students use every day. Insights into the designer’s methodology and the impact on race, gender, accessibility, class, or those with other socio-cultural differences will be analyzed. This course offers a global analysis into our interconnected world, spanning from the Industrial Revolution to contemporary times, highlighting key events and developments.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve All students
Active Date 20240403T09:47:56

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Humanities Area II

Course Outline

Discussion of cultural, historical, social, and political context for select mass-produced goods and their production.
Discussion of design elements, principles of composition, means of production, and target demographics of select mass-produced goods.
A suite of hands-on design projects, research notebooks, and presentations.

Student Learning Outcomes
Use the terminology, evolution, career options, current issues, and professional practices of the contemporary Industrial Designer in research and presentation.

Discuss and evaluate Industrial Design products and modes of mass-production in the context of culture, gender, race, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and/or other socially defined sources of identity.

Evaluate using systems theory, mass-produced objects as expressions of identity and resistance and identify how one’s own positionality influences one’s interactions with mass-produced objects.

Create hands-on projects applying a user-centered approach to design problems that incorporates principles of psychology and human interaction with products.