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SUBJECT

DESIGN THEMES

KEY DATA

  • TYPOLOGY

    Mandatory

  • COURSE

    3

  • SEMESTER

    5

  • ITINERARY

    All programmes (common subject)

  • TEACHING
  • ECTS

    6

  • AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

    History of art and artistic expression and Fine Arts

  • LANGUAGE

    Degree: Spanish / Degree: English

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The main objective of this course is to turn historical knowledge of design into a theoretical tool that is useful for contemporary professional practice. It enables students to build strong connections with art, architecture, and the debates surrounding environmental and social sustainability. The course begins with an analysis of the origins of design, its consolidation as a discipline during modernity, and its relationship with the major processes of social, cultural, and technological transformation that shaped the 19th and 20th centuries.

This historical-cultural journey allows students to understand design as a situated practice, influenced by the ideological and material context in which it arises, and as a discipline capable of responding to contemporary challenges.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • To relate the social, cultural, political and economic evolution of society to its technological and scientific progress, from a critical perspective, through methodologies specific to historical analysis.
  • Identify the historical and identity references of a community in order to establish the relationship that exists between tradition and technological innovation.
  • Recognize the impact of sociopolitical behaviors on the definition of design strategies for new products, services, and experiences that contribute to the advancement of the territory.
  • Define the historical references related to the evolution of the objects that make up everyday life, in order to identify data of an ethical, aesthetic and cultural nature.
  • Recognize the use of narratives that establish the principles of the social function of design to identify the use of the principles of inclusivity and gender discourse presented in the proposals studied.