Articulate the relationship between cultural context and design innovation and expression.
Objectives
Articulate the relationship between cultural context and design innovation and expression;
Research designers from historic periods and familiarize yourself with their signature works;
Use the structure of comparison to highlight the similarities and differences between two different types of designed products (buildings, products, graphics and services and systems).
Practice your editing! Convey details in a concise and well-structured story.
Assignment:
Understanding more about the people who have contributed to the establishment of the design disciplines is an important step toward being knowledgeable about design processes and practices. And as design practices have become more actively entwined with people in general, using well-told stories to communicate messages has become a critical design skill.
Use this opportunity to learn about two designers by comparing one to another and demonstrate your awareness of how some particular aspect of their design process or a well-known design project for which they have been credited can be explained through an imaginative story you create. Write a story that sets the stage for the meeting of the two designers you have investigated. Describe the place where the meeting occurs… what would make sense, given the personalities involved? Do they meet over lunch? In a court room? When one attends the exhibition of another? Do they follow each other on Twitter? You decide and describe the scenario. Include an image of a significant design associated with each of the designers in your essay.
In your story, one of the designers should engage the other by either 1) telling him/her about how his/her work has been a positive influence on the younger designer (and why); or by 2) making the point that times have changed, and that new times require exciting new approaches to design (and why); or by 3) making the point that what is new can never live up to the quality of what was done in the past (and why).
Context for your story should be the most critical cultural factors such as wars or other types of life- altering political events, advancements in science, engineering or manufacturing, and/or key evolutions in cultural expression (art, music, literature, etc.). Illustrate your story with one image that you feel helps support the point being made in the exchange between the two designers. Be sure to provide a reference list for any sources you use to support the information your story provides, including sources for the images.
Choose your two designers from the list on page two. Because this story is a work of fiction, the two designers do not have to have lived in the same place at the same time. Anything is possible!
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