Twentieth Century Design

DDD10001 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students

Duration

  • One Semester or equivalent
     
     

Contact hours

  • 36 hours

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

2023 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 1		 Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
27 Feb 23 - 28 May 23

Results:
4 Jul 23

Last self enrolment:
12 Mar 23

Census:
31 Mar 23

Last withdraw without fail:
14 Apr 23

Dates:
31 Jul 23 - 29 Oct 23

Results:
5 Dec 23

Last self enrolment:
13 Aug 23

Census:
31 Aug 23

Last withdraw without fail:
15 Sep 23
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Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 1		 Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 3

Dates:
13 Mar 23 - 11 Jun 23

Results:
4 Jul 23

Last self enrolment:
26 Mar 23

Census:
7 Apr 23

Last withdraw without fail:
28 Apr 23

Dates:
6 Nov 23 - 11 Feb 24

Results:
5 Mar 24

Last self enrolment:
19 Nov 23

Census:
1 Dec 23

Last withdraw without fail:
29 Dec 23

Aims and objectives

This unit engages students in 20th Century design history, focusing on key designers, innovations and movements, within global and local frameworks. It explores the historical development of design as a creative, cultural and professional practice, referencing the visual, material and spatial languages of graphics, products, interiors and multi-media. It investigates how design has been historically practised and theorised and how this informs design today. The economic and cultural role of design is explored, in relation with modern technology, materials, production and consumerism and the arts. A contemporary lens is used to consider the relevance of the past to the present.

Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
 
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
 
1. Discuss ideas about design and society in large and small group situations
2. Identify historically significant designers, design movements, objects, theories, practices, considering their social, cultural and economic importance, and their implications for the 21st century
3. Critically analyse a range of historical issues and present responses through a range of discursive modes
4. Critique key design concepts and developments, both historical and contemporary, using a body of primary and secondary resources, including online materials, objects and environments
5. Integrate theoretical and historical concepts in a manner that is relevant and applicable to design studio practice
6. Analyse design objects, places and environments, critically and visually at local, national, and international levels