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 +===== Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas =====
  
 +Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
 +Sunday, February 12, 2017
 +
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 +
 +=== Foreword ===
 +
 +  * Attendance list
 +  * Checking the cardboard radios
 +  * Open questions on the reading assignments? 1. **Research Methods for Product Design**: Future Forecasting (p. 30), Trend Spotting (p. 31), Literature Reviews (p. 50, p.64–65), 2. **Design as Research**: Where are we going? (p. 17–21), The Resourceful Social Expert (p. 22–27), The Myth of the Design Androgyne (p.28–34))
 +
 +=== Lecture Design History ===
 +
 +  * Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas – Marcus Vitruvius Romanus, (ca. 80–10 B.C.)
 +  * Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882): The focus should be on practical and functional aspects, decorative elements should be secondary.
 +  * Gottfried Semper (1803–1879): The form should be appropriate to the function, the material, and the manufacturing process.
 +  * Thonet Brothers, Chair No. 14, 1859
 +  * Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, The modern Style, Secession Style…
 +  * The German Werkbund
 +  * Werkbund Exhibition, The Weissenhof Project, Stuttgart, 1927
 +  * The aim of The Bauhaus
 +  * Periods of The Bauhaus
 +    * Founding Phase (1919-1923)
 +    * Consolidation Phase (1923-1928)
 +    * Phase of Disintegration (1928-1933)
 +  * The influence of The Bauhaus on Design Training
 +  * Walter Gropius,
18.5.1883 (Berlin) – 5.7.1969 (Boston)
 +  * Max Bill,
22.12.1908 (Winterthur) – 9.12.1994 (Berlin)
 +    * Ulmer Hocker (means stool), Max Bill, 1954
 +  * The goal of Ulm School of Design
 +  * Periods of Ulm School of Design
 +    * 1947–1953 – Concept
 +    * 1953–1956 – Former Bauhaus teachers joining
 +    * 1956–1958 – Inclusion of new scientific disciplines
 +    * 1958–1962 – Emphasis on Design Methodology
 +    * 1962–1966 – Involvement of industrial partners
 +    * 1967–1968 – Dispositional Freedom
 +  * The Story of Braun
 +
 +
 +=== Revision Workshop Essay 1 ===
 +
 +  * Start at 10:30am
 +
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 +
 +=== Homework ===
 +
 +  - Watch those two clips:
 +    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Cyp7bIZOM
 +    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncw3f4jgNP4
 +  - Rewrite Essay 1 (and use the Writing Center as a resource)
 +  - Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (p. 15–48)