Design History Colloquium

Catalog description

This course is about scholarly issues such as critical thinking, analysis, expression, rigorous questioning, discussion, and dialogue. The course seeks to stimulate a deeper interest in scholarly approaches for graduate students who share an intellectual curiosity about the history of design and seek to expand their knowledge in the emerging field of design studies through a dynamic interplay of design history, design theory and design criticism as these central elements are focused on design objects or artifacts. The Vignelli Center for Design Studies and the Cary Graphic Design Archive offer unique archival resources to support research and interpretive course objectives. The aspect of a colloquium is a gathering of graduate students who share an intellectual curiosity about the history of design and seek to expand their knowledge in the emerging field of design studies. The course objectives are realized through lectures, field trips, guest speakers, archive visits and required research and writing projects. Using a case study format, the course content will focus primarily on the seminal people, places and products of the modern design movement.