Abstract
This study focuses on a specific Basic Design exercise, which has been conducted for four following semesters in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey in 2010-2011. In this exercise, students were expected to design a Jury Invitation (card) collectively specialized for the specific semester. The exercise has four main phases to which students followed: Generating ideas in the form of models individually, voting, redesigning the top four or five collectively, and finalizing and reproducing. In this study, we aim to discuss the process of this exercise and the outcomes of it in the light of collective design. So, it can be considered as an endeavor to experiment collectivity rather than conventional individualistic approach in basic design education.
Keywords
Basic design, Collective design, Design education
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.006
Citation
Bagli, H.,and Gelmez, K.(2013) Who is the Designer?: An Experience of Collectivism in Basic Design Course, in Reitan, J.B., Lloyd, P., Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Digranes, I., & Lutnæs, E. (eds.), DRS // Cumulus: Design Learning for Tomorrow, 14-17 May, Oslo, Norway. https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.006
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Who is the Designer?: An Experience of Collectivism in Basic Design Course
This study focuses on a specific Basic Design exercise, which has been conducted for four following semesters in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey in 2010-2011. In this exercise, students were expected to design a Jury Invitation (card) collectively specialized for the specific semester. The exercise has four main phases to which students followed: Generating ideas in the form of models individually, voting, redesigning the top four or five collectively, and finalizing and reproducing. In this study, we aim to discuss the process of this exercise and the outcomes of it in the light of collective design. So, it can be considered as an endeavor to experiment collectivity rather than conventional individualistic approach in basic design education.