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IXDGR-6350-2: Design and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Spring 2022

Subject: Graduate Interaction Design
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 18, 2022 — May 08, 2022
Meetings: Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - W5
Instructor: Barry Katz

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 7/7 Closed

Description:

Although human beings have been making things for around 1.76 million years, the concept of “design” is barely 150 years old, the profession of “designer” less than 100, and a serious understanding of design—whether as creative art or as rigorous science—has yet to be realized. In this course, we will examine the history of design, understood as an inventory of objects, a method of research, a strategy ofbusiness, and a habit of mind.We will study leading movements of late 19th through early 21st century design, drawing our examples from industrial products, architectural spaces, graphic images, and information systems, always within the cultural context in which they function. In the end, however, we will find that design is less about objects than about ideas.

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