Corso di Laurea Triennale in Design
Prerequisiti
Un test d’ingresso stabilisce il livello degli studenti in aula. Idealmente si cerca di lavorare su un livello minimo di Pre-Intermediate. Gli studenti col livello più basso sono tenuti a lavorare molto sul proprio livello di grammatica con i supporti di software in aula d’informatica.
Obiettivi
Il corso si propone di introdurre lo studente all’ambito dell’interaction design, approfondendo aspetti teorici, tecnici e metodologici che consentiranno di progettare interfacce, oggetti e spazi interattivi.
Descrizione
Placement test (test d’ingresso iniziale). Introduzione al corso.
Tecniche di studio in lingua, tecniche per la raccolta dei lessici.
Present
today’s design and designers (present simple)
describing objects (what does it look like? shapes, what’s it made of? materials, what’s it for? it’s for…..+ing, verb + ing used as noun, infinitive of purpose,)
talking about what you are doing now (present continuous)
expressing opinions about design materials (comparatives and superlatives) (agreeing and disagreeing) industrial processes (the passive voice, writing, linking stages)
Describing designs, logos and products
Future
the future of industrial design (future with will/won’t – predictions, promises, offers, decisions) 0,1st. conditionals
future arrangements, (‘going to’ future and present continuous -for expressing future intentions)
future with will/won’t (predictions, promises, offers, decisions)
‘going to’ future and present continuous (for future arrangements)
Past
past simple, regular and irregular verbs
present perfect (experience)
past simple or present perfect?
(past continuous
used to
past perfect and reported speech)
What if? Hypotheses
writing a brief
texts by and about designers in the past
modal verbs
(2nd and 3rd conditionals)
Modalità di esame
L’ esame finale sarà costituito da una prova scritta (traduzione e grammatica), e da una prova orale che verterà essenzialmente sulla presentazione di un progetto che è stato oggetto di studio durante l’anno. In caso di esame svolta online la prova scritta può subire le modifiche.
Bibliografia
Fondamentali (a scelta un testo di grammatica e un vocabolario)
Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary (o simile)
English Grammar in Use 3° edizione with answers Raymond Murphy C.U.P. (disponibile anche in versione con CD ROM)
Complementari (grammatica)
The Good Grammar Book with answers Michael Swan & Catherine Walker O.U.P. 2001
Grammar Spectrum for Italian Students OUP Norman Coe, Anna Amendolagine et al Student’s Pack inc. CD rom OUP (per l’esame PET)
New English File (3 levels) My digital book. With dvd rom. Oxford University Press (in base al livello consigliato)
Design research in English – General Reference Books:
A History of Modern Design: Graphics and Products Since the Industrial Revolution David Raizman ed.Laurence King Publishing ISBN: 1856693481
Industrial Design John Heskett ed.Thames and Hudson (1980) reprinted 2003
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Design since 1900 ed. Thames and Hudson (1993) second edition 2004
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design & Designers new ed.2003
A Dictionary of Modern Design Jonathan M. Woodham O.U.P. 2004
Also useful for checking complex language:
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture OUP 2006
The Penguin Dictionary of Building 4th editon James H. Maclean and John S. Scott 1995
Archispeak An illustrated guide to Architectural terms. Tom Porter Spon Press 2004
Reading around the subject – general essays and anthologies:
The Industrial Design Reader edited by Carma Gorman, Alworth Press 2003 ISBN:1-58115-310-4
The Photography Reader. Edited by Liz Wells, Routledge 2003
Universal Principles of Design Jill Butler, et al Rockport Publishers
Inc. 2003 ISBN: 1-59253-007-9
The Design of Everyday Things Norman, Donald A. ed. Basic Books ISBN: 0465067107
The Art of Innovation Tom Kelley Profile Books 2001
Made in Italy- Rethinking a Century of Italian Design ed. Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan Bloomsbury 2014 ISBN: 978-0-85785-389-9
Products, materials and making things:
What is product design? by Laura Slack ed. Rotovision 2006
Industrial Design Techniques and Materials Raymond Guidot Flammarion Paris 2006 (also in available in French)
Material ConneXion Beylerian and Dent Thames and Hudson 2005
Materials for Inspirational Design by Chris Lefteri Rotovision SA 2006
Making It (manufacturing techniques for product design.) by Chris Lefteri Laurence King 2007
Ready Made (how to make almost everything) Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne Thames and Hudson 2006
Graphics, visual communication and advertising.
What is graphic design? by Quentin Newark ed. Rotovision 2007
Creative Advertising by Mario Pricken ed. Thames and Hudson 2008
How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul by Adrian Shaughnessy ed.Laurence King 2005
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy 1963 reprinted by Southbank publishing 2008
A technique for producing ideas. by James Webb Young (advertising classic from 1965)
Twenty ads that shook the world. by James B. Twitchell ed. Three Rivers Press New York 2000
Graphic Design Theory readings from the field. ed. Helen Armstrong Princeton Architectural Press New York 2009
This means this, this means that. A user’s guide to semiotics. by Sean Hall ed. Laurence King 2007