11-03-2013, 02:56 PM
Design your own world. Are you ready?
Design 101 is a journey into contemporary design in which you will transform yourself and your everyday life into 101 projects.
For three months, you will develop basic design attitudes that will allow you to thrive in today’s world, while restoring your understanding of its mechanics. We live in a global community where the physical bits are slowly (and not so slowly) overlapped by social media. Design has become #design. Indeed, the use of new technologies has changed the teaching and, by the same token, the nature of the past; the past is being renewed. Herein lies the conceptual hinge of Design 101:
a new way to learn a new design.
To do so, we will collectively explore the tools of today (such as this MOOC platform) to step into a fantastic voyage through time and space, in which we are all absolute beginners.
Dates
The course will officially start on October 28, 2013 and end on January 29, 2014.
Content of the course/journey:
The various things to do (so-called “hands-on” activities) will be divided into 14 units, one per week.
Design 101 will help you understand:
No prior knowledge is required. If you have a lot of prior knowledge, it might make the learning process more difficult, but don’t worry, no one is perfect. As we said, if we talk about contemporary design, we are all "absolute beginners"!
https://iversity.org/c/2?r=ec4b4
Design 101 is a journey into contemporary design in which you will transform yourself and your everyday life into 101 projects.
For three months, you will develop basic design attitudes that will allow you to thrive in today’s world, while restoring your understanding of its mechanics. We live in a global community where the physical bits are slowly (and not so slowly) overlapped by social media. Design has become #design. Indeed, the use of new technologies has changed the teaching and, by the same token, the nature of the past; the past is being renewed. Herein lies the conceptual hinge of Design 101:
a new way to learn a new design.
To do so, we will collectively explore the tools of today (such as this MOOC platform) to step into a fantastic voyage through time and space, in which we are all absolute beginners.
Dates
The course will officially start on October 28, 2013 and end on January 29, 2014.
Content of the course/journey:
The various things to do (so-called “hands-on” activities) will be divided into 14 units, one per week.
- Intro: Acquaint yourself with the course’s dynamics.
- My diary: Learn about the design process by creating a very simple object.
- Kitchen Stories: Become an expert at something and develop basic social skills.
- It’s alive: Design as a garden.
- Voyage into my room: Understand interior spaces, plans and measures.
- Zoom out (the city): Observe the public space in a new way (and map it).
- Making things: Get familiar with shapes, colors, materials. Plan a series.
- Telling stories: Form doesn’t follow function. Form follows fiction.
- Christmas break: Lots of greetings + some more.
- Dressing people: Understand what “custom-made” really means.
- I lie, therefore I am: Form follows fiction goes forward.
- Road to nowhere: Learn to become self-sufficient.
- Ready to show? Ready to exhibit?
- P.S.: Three extra days (to reach 101!).
Design 101 will help you understand:
- How the world looks through the special lenses called "design".
- Who shares your visions and ideas (who could collaborate with you in the future).
- How a community works: its behavior and potential.
- What skills and attitudes you have: their merits and limitations.
No prior knowledge is required. If you have a lot of prior knowledge, it might make the learning process more difficult, but don’t worry, no one is perfect. As we said, if we talk about contemporary design, we are all "absolute beginners"!
https://iversity.org/c/2?r=ec4b4