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| | ==== Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas 2020 ==== |
| | ===== General course structure/schedule of meetings/list of discussion topics/homework and due dates ===== |
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| | Please be aware that the course is continuously adjusting its schedule and its mode of learning towards NYUAD's responses on [[https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/nyuad-response-to-covid-19.html|Covid 19]]. All <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>meetings marked in yellow</font> are directly affected. Students are asked to carefully check eventual occurring daily changes and updates on this site. For questions about the schedule please contact Felix. |
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| | Spring Semester 1 |
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| | ^**Week** ^ ^**Theme** ^**<font inherit/inherit;;#ffffff;;#e74c3c>Homework due to the day</font>** \\ Felix will adjust timing for homework (due to…) depending on how fast/slow we progress during the semester. Please be aware that timings might change. | |
| | |Week 0 |[[:uvf_01-28-20|TUE, 01-28-20]] |**Design Fundamentals** \\ General introduction, Time and Project Management|Get the course books from the book store. | |
| | | |[[:uvf_01-30-20|THU, 01-30-20]] |**The Vision of Design** \\ Project Colloquium |1. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 1 (p. 9–19), p. 176–177)), \\ 2. Develop a [[homework_gant_chart|Gantt-Chart]] that reflects the design stages of your project for this semester, \\ 3. Bring 5 digital photographs of traditional/typical/important architecture from your hometown. | |
| | |Week 1 |[[:uvf_02-04-20|TUE, 02-04-20]] |**Rapid Prototyping** (Laser Cutting Workshop) |1. Pass Esteban's laser cutter training \\ 2. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (p. 94–119), \\ 3. Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (Design and Technology: p. 239–261) | |
| | | |[[:uvf_02-06-20|THU, 02-06-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ (No. 1, No. 2), class discussion |1. Watch 'Rams' \\ 2. Go through [[:presentation_rules|this compilation]] of presentation rules | |
| | |Week 2 |[[:uvf_02-11-20|TUE, 02-11-20]] |**Mood-board presentation** |1. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (p. 78), \\ 2. Think about three cardboard architecure projects you would like to work on, \\ 3. Create a mood-board for each idea. \\ 4. Email a PDF with the 3 moodboards to Felix | |
| | | |[[:uvf_02-13-20|THU, 02-13-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ (No. 3, No. 4), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 3 |[[:uvf_02-18-20|TUE, 02-18-20]] |**Ideation** (Brainstorming, Mind-Maps) |1. Watch 'Urbanized', \\ 2. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (p. 56-57, 66-67), \\ 3. Create a mind-map on your selected idea. \\ 4. Create a [[https://www.wordclouds.com|word-cloud]] about your selected cardboard architecture. \\ 5. Email mind-map and word-cloud to Felix | |
| | | |[[:uvf_02-20-20|THU, 02-20-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ (No. 5, No. 6), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 4 |[[:uvf_02-25-20|TUE, 02-25-20]] |**Drawing Workshop** |- | |
| | | |[[:uvf_02-27-20|THU, 02-27-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ (No. 7, No. 8), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 5 |[[:uvf_03-03-20|TUE, 03-03-20]] |**Cardboard Workshop with Tobias Horrock** |Please reserve the afternoons and evenings on Tue 3 and Wed 4 for this workshop (each day 6–9pm) | |
| | | |[[:uvf_03-05-20|THU, 03-05-20]] |Presentation of Cardboard Workshop results, discussion with Tobias Horrock |- | |
| | |Week 6 |<del>[[:uvf_03-10-20|TUE, 03-10-20]]</del> |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33> NO CLASS – COVID-19 </font> ([[https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/nyuad-response-to-covid-19.html|link]]) |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33> Homework remains!</font> \\ 1. Create three handdrawings that visualise your idea. \\ 2. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (p. 21–45) \\ 3. Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (Utopias, Visions, Concepts, and Trends: p. 216–225) \\ 4. Email scans of your drawings to Felix | |
| | | |<del>[[:uvf_03-12-20|THU, 03-12-20]]</del> |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33> NO CLASS – COVID-19 </font> ([[https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/nyuad-response-to-covid-19.html|link]]) |- | |
| | |Week 7 |[[:uvf_03-17-20|TUE, 03-17-20]] |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>Group Meeting via zoom</font> |1. Build a small scale model of your cardboard architecture \\ 2. Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design, Architecture and Design (p. 202–215) \\ 3. Email pictures of your cardboard model to Felix | |
| | | |<del>[[:uvf_03-19-20|THU, 03-19-20]]</del> |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>1:1 sessions via zoom only</font> |- | |
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| | Spring Semester 2 |
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| | |Week 8 |[[:uvf_03-31-20|TUE, 03-31-20]] |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>Group meeting via zoom</font> |1. Improve/change your model based on the feedback you received. \\ 2. Email pictures of your improved model (2nd iteration) to Felix | |
| | | |<del>[[:uvf_04-02-20|THU, 04-02-20]]</del> |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>1:1 sessions via zoom only</font> |- | |
| | |Week 9 |[[:uvf_04-07-20|TUE, 04-07-20]] |**Project Colloquium** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. Project Report 1/5 \\ 2. Improve/change your model based on the feedback you received. \\ | |
| | | |[[:uvf_04-09-20|THU, 04-09-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ (No. 9, No. 10), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 10 |[[:uvf_04-14-20|TUE, 04-14-20]] |**Project Colloquium** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. Project Report 2/5 \\ 2. Watch 'Objectified' \\ 3. Improve/change your model based on the feedback you received. | |
| | | |[[:uvf_04-16-20|THU, 04-16-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ (No. 11, No. 12), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 11 |[[:uvf_04-21-20|TUE, 04-21-20]] |**Project Colloquium** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. Project Report 3/5 \\ 1. Improve/change your model based on the feedback you received. \\ | |
| | | |[[:uvf_04-23-20|THU, 04-23-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ (No. 13, No. 14), class discussion |1. Watch 'Bauhaus, The Face of the Twentieth Century' (source [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uN9JK66-vs|1]], [[https://vimeo.com/250264053|2]]) | |
| | |Week 12 |[[:uvf_04-28-20|TUE, 04-28-20]] |**Project Colloquium** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. Project Report 4/5 \\ 2. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 6 (Testing), p. 121–137, chapter 7 (Evaluation & Selection), p. 139-155, \\ 3. Develop a perfectly made cardboard model that features a detail from your architecture. | |
| | | |[[:uvf_04-30-20|THU, 04-30-20]] |[[:2020_uvf_case_studies|Case-study presentations]] \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ (No. 15), class discussion |- | |
| | |Week 13 |[[:uvf_05-05-20|TUE, 05-05-20]] |**Project Colloquium** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. Project Report 5/5, \\ 2. 1. Write your [[http://www.hardmood.info/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=uvf_artistic_statement_writing_guide_scan.pdf|Artistic Statement]], \\ 2. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 8 (Communicating), p. 156-173) | |
| | | |[[:uvf_05-07-20|THU, 05-07-20]] |**Graphic Design & Typography** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> \\ |1. 'Watch Helvetica' \\ 2. Name for your cardboard architecture \\ 3. Logo for your cardboard architecture, \\ 4. Reading: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design, On the Communicative Function of Design (p. 148–186), Design and its Context (p. 189–201) | |
| | |Week 14 |<del>[[:uvf_05-12-20|TUE, 05-12-20]]</del> |<font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>1:1 sessions via zoom only</font> |1. Finish your cardboard architecture prototype. | |
| | | |[[:uvf_05-14-20|THU, 05-14-20]] |**Online Group presentation** \\ <font inherit/inherit;;#000000;;#FFFC33>=> Group meeting via zoom</font> |**<font inherit/inherit;;#ffffff;;#e74c3c>Have all documents (drawings, photographs of models, etc.) uploaded to the online exhibition!</font>** | |
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