Course detail

Workshop - Conceptual Design

FSI-YEX-AAcad. year: 2015/2016

Students develop creative invention, vision and original approach using experiments when searching for a new form, function and content of proposed work. Assignments are processed in the same manner as the previous course. The problems solved are more demanding by both their nature and extent, e.g.: urban transport design, shipping, experimental housing, waste disposal in the future, etc. Students are encouraged to process tasks so that their expression is a characteristic of their creative personality.
The course has been upgraded with the support of the OPVK project. "The Studio digital sculpture and new media project", reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0278, is co-financed by the European Social Fund and the statebudget of the Czech Republic

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Miroslav Zvonek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The free form of assignment and the presentation itself allow discovering new directions and approaches in solving the assignments. Gained knowledge and abilities can shift the border of understanding the given problem and the solution itself by further creative approach.

Prerequisites

Student must mastered the fundamentals of drawing and moulding necessary for project presentation, understanding of the basic spatial creation, art composition and realisation of three-dimensional models. Mastering designer’s solution of simple industrial products is also expected. Knowledge of program Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop or CorelDraw is desirable for presentation of the project.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Creative work in ateliers.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: attendance at lessons, handing over assigned projects by the deadline in a sufficient quality. Presentation of an elaborated project. Design and the level of presentation of each project are evaluated separately.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on projects. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the subject is further development of creative and inventional abilities of students in solving general assignment in the sphere of design with the use of unusual mind processes. The students do not have to follow otherwise strict technical, technological, operational, and economical requirements.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The attendance in workshops is controlled. Students are required to attend workshops in scheduled hours, work on given projects and wait for consultation, unless a lecturer gives any other individual plan. Students have to inform the lecturer in advance about his working-place in the scheduled education time (studio, workshops, modelling room) - absence is not excused without this information. The absences are possible only due to serious reasons, e.g. illness. Unexcused absence may cause the project is not accepted. The total absence greater than 50% (including excused absence) may threaten project acceptance.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

John Heskett: Industrial Design, Thames a Hudson, 1980
Byars, Mel: Design encyclopedia, Klinkhardt+Bietmann, 1994
Carlotte & Peter Fiell: Industrial Design A-Z, Taschen 2000

Recommended reading

Lamarová, M.: Průmyslový design, Odeon,1984
Periodika: Design trend 1992-2004

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2A-P Master's

    branch M-PDS , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

labs and studios

78 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Ondřej Basler
akad. soch. Tamara Buganská
Ing. Martin Ondra, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Project assignment - design of industrial product;
Problem analysis, acquiring data and information;
Design sketches, first correction;
Next sketches and drafts, model sketches;
Final version approval, final poster elaboration;
Final poster elaboration, 2nd project assignment;
Final poster completion, follow-up correction, 2nd project analysis;
1st project presentation, 2nd project - sketches and drafts;
Sketches and drafts to 2nd project, model sketches;
The final version approval;
Final poster elaboration, consultation;
Final poster completion, follow-up correction;
2nd project presentation/workshop project/.