===== Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas =====

Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

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=== Prelude ===

  * Attendance list
  * Reminder to attend a VR workshop by [[pablo_dornhege|Prof. Pablo Dornhege]] on the weekend of April 20+21 (Fr+Sa)
  * Short intro to google's myMap => Updating the <del>Material List</del> [[uvf_material_ressource_list|Creative Material Map]]

=== Interlude ===

  * Felix's [[presentation_rules|presentation guidelines]]
  * Introduction to presentation template
  * The Function of Design
    * On the Communicative Function of Design
    * Formal Aesthetic Functions (Laws of Gestalt, Principles of Formal Design)
    * Marking Functions
    * Symbolic Functions
    * From Product Language to Product Semantics

=== Overture (Project Colloquium) ===

  * Presentation and discussion on the project ideas (we will use your drawings to discuss the several aspects on your developed design idea)

=== Homework for next meeting ===
  - Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (p. 21–45) => Ethnography, Photo and video diaries, Shadowing, A day in the life, Personal belongings, Future forecasting, Trend spotting, Scenarios, Product autopsy, Sketching 
  - Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (Utopias, Visions, Concepts, and Trends: p. 216–225)