DU2056 Seminar: Design II (1925-2000)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Lada Hubatová Vacková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 12:00–13:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students in more depth not only into the development of applied arts and design, but primarily into the theoretical discourse, key concepts and terms in these fields; both in the international and local context. The seminar series are preceded by the lecture series Design II, which it develops by closer interpretation of objects and texts. In the seminars, each student selects a topic based on a specific design object from the period 1925-2000. The topic could be related to the city of Brno, the design collection of the Moravian Gallery, but this is not a condition and can be negotiated. In the course of the semester, the student will work on the topic and present it to the peers and lecturers. The lecture and seminar series Design II follow the lecture and seminar series Design I (until 1925) in the autumn semester. It is not a prerequisite to have attended them in order to take up Design II. The seminar will also include regular consultations of the developing topic, aimed at improving academic writing skills.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
- identify and describe the features of the main stages in the history of design;
- identify the key tendencies and directions in local and international design of the period;
- understand the main theoretical design concepts of the period;
- understand the circumstances in which design is created and produced;
- interpret the objects in their cultural, political, social and theoretical context.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction into topics and lectures, schools of design in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s-1960s, teaching reforms, theoreticians, teachers LHV 18. 2. 2. 1925 – 1939: Paris Expo '37, New York world's fairs '39, political contexts of design MF 25.2. 3. Design training institutions: the Bauhaus diaspora in the USA in the 1930s-50s, links to MoMA, Ulm Hoschschule für Gestaltung, the „Gute Form“ concet LHV 4.3. 4. USA and mid-century modern: the consumer society MF 11.3. 5. Ulm Hoschschule für Gestaltung, the „Gute Form“ concept – The Zlín (Gottwaldov) Machining and Forming studio under the School of Art and Design LHV 18. 3. 6. Postwar recovery by design: Britain Can Make It exhibition 1946, Festival of Britain 1951, MF 25.3. 7. The politics of Czechoslovak design – institutions: ÚLUV, ÚBOK, Vývojový ústav nábytkářský. Exhibitions as forms of cultural and political representation during the Cold War, design under the normalisation of the 1970s and 1980s LHV 1.4. 8. Postmodern design: theories and case studies including Alchimia, Memphis, Sottsass, Starck MF 8.4. 9.Postmodernism in Czechoslovakia: theories, case studies, Atika group, teaching of Bořek Šípek, František Burian and others LHV 22. 4. 10. Supranational design: design overseas, Scandinavian design, IKEA MF 29.4. 11. Design and trransformation in Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic 6.5. LHV 12. Design exhibitions, current debates in design and design history MF 13.5. 12. Exhibition visit, discussion 20.5.
Literature
    required literature
  • Design : critical and primary sources. Edited by D. J. Huppatz. First published. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016, xxxiii, 24. ISBN 9781472539366. info
  • Design v českých zemích 1900-2000 : instituce moderního designu. Edited by Iva Knobloch - Radim Vondráček. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 2016, 658 stran. ISBN 9788071011576. info
  • Věci a slova : umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870-1970. Edited by Lada Hubatová-Vacková - Martina Pachmanová - Pavla Pečinková, Tra. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 2014, 572 s. ISBN 9788086863696. info
  • SPARKE, Penny. An introduction to design and culture : 1900 to the present. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2004, x, 280. ISBN 0415263360. URL info
  • Twentieth-century design. Edited by Jonathan M. Woodham. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 288 s. ISBN 0192842048. info
    recommended literature
  • FALLAN, Kjetil. Design history : understanding theory and method. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014, xix, 207. ISBN 9781847885388. info
  • History of design : decorative arts and material culture, 1400-2000. Edited by Pat Kirkham - Susan Weber - Heather Jane McCormick - John Robert Alder. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2013, xiii, 698. ISBN 9780300196146. info
  • MEIKLE, Jeffrey L. Design in the USA. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 252 s. ISBN 0192842196. info
  • SPARKE, Penny. Století designu : průkopníci designu 20. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Slovart, 1999, 272 s. ISBN 8072091425. info
Teaching methods
seminars with group discussions, individual presentations
Assessment methods
The seminar work is assessed on the basis of 1. oral presentation in the seminar. As part of the presentation, the student presents an object in its art historical, typological, user-oriented, theoretical or other context, and the ways of interpreting it. 2. a written summary submitted at the end of the semester, with respective bibliography, of about 6-8 standard pages. The course work will be based on an in-depth research of the object, archival material and literature and on interpretation of the respective work.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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