MANUAL DO CURSO {Descrição das Unidades Curriculares}
Progam: 3rd Cycle; 180 ECTS
Curricular Unit (UC) Code: 1912099
PhD on DESIGN
Course Nº: 5571
year: 1º
Semester: 1º
ECTS: 1,5
Teaching
Language(s)
Português/ English
Scientific Area:
History, Theory and
Critique,
Code: HTC
Professor :
Doctor Helena Souto,
Prof. Associate
IADE-U Scientific Are:
History, Theory and Critique
UC Designation: Research Seminar in Theory and History of Material
Culture
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Total working hours : 39h
:Lectures: 5h
T
TP
PL
TC
S
E
OT
O
Total
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
5
T - Theoretical, TP - Theoretical-practical, PL – Laboratoriail, TC – Field Work,
S - Seminar,
E – Internship, OT - Tutorial, O – Other
Objectivos de aprendizagem (conhecimentos, aptidões e competências a desenvolver pelos estudantes)
Objectives of the curricular unit and competences:
Present the work in the Theory and History of Material Culture research line
Develop Skills in critical listening of a lecture.
Develop Skill in studying and utilizing proposed literature
Conteúdos programáticos
Syllabus:
Presentation of UNIDCOM/IADE and the Research line in Theory and History of Material Culture
The Concept of Material Culture. Tensions between Critical theory, History of Art, Design History and Theory
The theoretical discourse about the design praxis, examining their relations with other academic disciplines
such as Material Culture, History of Science, History of Art, Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Sociology,
Anthropology, Geography.
Stages and Paradigms in developing a product. Factors that influence its elaboration, praxis, contexts and reception. Establish the research
method adapted to the different fields of the study objects. The style of the academic writing in the area. Examples of recent research work.
Demonstração da coerência dos conteúdos programáticos com os objectivos da unidade curricular
Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit’s objectives.
In a doctoral seminar, the Syllabus is designed to refer to the curricular unit objectives, namely:
Awareness of the goals to achieve in the doctoral program related with the institutional research goals
Awareness of the work structure and the quality assurance measures and assessment in the program
Knowledge about the resources both physical and digital for research
Knowledge about the history of the doctoral programs in Design and the major research associations and institutions.
knowledge about the general skills required to completion: literature research; team work; creative thinking; reasoning; organize a pilot
study/a critical argumentation/theorize over a body of work; validate a research.
Metodologias de ensino (avaliação incluída)
Teaching methodologies (including evaluation):
Lectures with discussion. The evaluation is done through the demonstration done in the paper developed in
the curricular units of "Academic Writing in English" and "Research Topic" of the knowledge in the literature
discussed in the seminar. The assessment will be conducted by the responsible member of faculty in the interval between 0 and 20.
Demonstração da coerência das metodologias de ensino com os objectivos de aprendizagem da unidade curricular
Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit’s objectives.
Being a doctoral seminar, the curricular unit's objectives are coherent with teaching methodologies through
the participation in the lectures, the readings and the resulting knowledge application in a structural document for the doctoral research.
Bibliografia principal (Main Readings:
BÜRDEK, Bernhard E. – Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design. Basel, Boston, Berlin:
Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005.
JULIER, Guy – The culture of design. London: SAGE Publications, 2008.
MARGOLIN, Victor (ed.) – The politics of the artificial; essays on design and design studies. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2002.
SOUTO, Maria Helena – História do Design em Portugal. Reflexões. (Pref. José-Augusto França). Lisboa:
Edições IADE, 2009.
SUDJIC, Deyan – The language of things: understanding the world of desirable objects. London: Penguin,
2009.
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