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4000 Level Designed Objects Course Descriptions
DES OB 4012
Fluid Interfaces
Fluid Interfaces exist between the blurred boundaries of the body and
architecture. By cutting across the various fields of design activity
in the disciplines of architecture and fashion the class, will examine
the sharing of ideas in layered languages dealing with content and form,
object and space, surface and material, communication and representation.
Through various forms of imagery and translation of arguments, texts,
models, graphic representations and actual garments, students will explore
relationships between shelter and garment. As architecture gives space
through form and structure, inside and outside, garments act as second
skins which move form and structure through the experience of the body.
DES OB 4035
Light in Conjunction
Many designers, architects, and artists consider “light” as
a principal “material” component of their work. Perceptions
and experiences of form, space, color, and texture can be altered by
the way in which an object or environment is externally or internally
illuminated. This transdisciplinary studio class is a forum for upper
level students to develop existing or new projects that incorporate
artificial and/or natural light as a significant and integral component
of the work. Visual presentations, technical demonstrations, field-trips,
readings, and lectures by visiting artists and designers will provide
students with an understanding of the fundamental properties and characteristics
of natural and artificial light; will present the work of contemporary
artists, designers, and architects who utilize light in their projects;
and will give students a greater understanding of the relationship of
light to visual and spatial perception.
DES OB 4050
Advanced Projects: Designed Objects
This studio course, which has a substantial discussion component, provides
an opportunity for artists and designers to explore at advanced levels
individual projects and issues within the field of designed objects
(loosely and broadly defined to include things, whether products, garments,
environments, interiors, installations, or whatever) which address a
“user.” Students’ individual projects will be explored
in a context of key emerging issues including typology and the challenge
to product norms and expectations, the contesting of assumptions concerning
the user, the critical deployment of technologies, reciprocity, sentience,
and the relations of objects and bodies, the strategy of the gift, and
the understanding of configurative possibility in the wide sense.
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