(en)Katalog ECTS

Design history

(en)Pedagog: dr Agata Szydłowska

(en)Pole (en)Opis
Course type Compulsory, Theoretical Subject Group
Didactic methods

Classes will take the form of a lecture with elements of discussion, workshops and group work. Classes will be held online on the Google Meets platform.

Language of lecture polski;
Prerequisites

Successful completion of semester IV.

Final requirements

1. Writing a term paper during the 5th semester.
2. Activity during the classes.
3. Preparation and submission of homework assigned during the semester.
4. Attendance in class (unexcused absence allowed: 4 hours).

The form of passing the course (assesment methods and criteria)

1. evaluation of the activity during classes and independent drawing conclusions and presenting and justifying their own opinions
2. evaluation of the level of mastering the material from the first semester on the basis of the semester paper
3. evaluation of the substantive level of homework

Teaching goals (program content, subject description)

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental issues related to the history of design in the context of social, cultural, political and technological change. As a result, students will be able to understand the multiple connections of their own discipline to social life and find the historical sources of contemporary practice.

Compulsory literature used during classes

D. Harris, Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America, Minneapolis, London 2013, fragmenty.

film Double Take, reż. J. Grimonprez, fragmenty.

M. Rosińska, „Raczej dla zamożnych niż mądrych”. Ikea i początek lat dziewięćdziesiątych [w:] Polskie Las Vegas i szwagier z Corelem. Architektura, moda i projektowanie wobec transformacji systemowej w Polsce, red. L. Klein, Warszawa 2017.

M. Rosińska, Archeologia szwedzkiego komfortu: polityka, nauka, konsumpcja, „Mała Kultura Współczesna”, https://malakulturawspolczesna.org/2014/04/01/monika-rosinska-archeologia-szwedzkiego-komfortu-polityka-nauka-konsumpcja/

G. Świtek, Kosmiczne skafandry, kosmiczne kuchnie, kosmiczne miasta... [w:] Kosmos wzywa! Sztuka i nauka w długich latach sześćdziesiątych, red. J. Kordjak-Piotrowska, S. Welbel, Warszawa 2014.

Additional literature recommended for the student's self learning

G. Adamson, Fewer Better Things. The Hidden Wisdom of Objects, Bloomsbury 2018.
magazyn „Autoportret”, nr 50 (3) 2015 Mity modernizmu, autoportret.pl

R. Barbrook, Przyszłości wyobrażone. Od myślącej maszyny do globalnej wioski, Warszawa 2009.
G. Beegan, P. Atkinson, Professionalism, Amateurism and the Boundaries of Design, „Journal of Design History” 2008, Vol. 21, No. 4.
L. Blackwell, Twentieth century type and beyond, Laurence King Publishing, London 2013.
C. Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, Palgrave Macmillan 2018.

A. J. Clarke, Design for Development. The Anthropological Turn in 1970s Design, „Journal of Design History”, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2015.

A. J. Clarke, Tuppwerware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, Smithsonian Books 1999.

B. Colomina, Domesticity at War, Cambridge, London 2007.
B. Colomina, X-Ray Architecture, Zurich 2019.
D. Crowley, Finding Poland in the Margins. The Case of the Zakopane Style, „Journal of Design History” 2001, Vol. 14 No. 2.
D. Crowley, National Style and Nation-State: Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style, New York and Manchester 1992.

G. Debord, Społeczeństwo spektaklu oraz Rozważania o społeczeństwie spektaklu, Warszawa 2006.  
C. Dilnot, The State of Design History. Part I: Mapping the Field, „Design Issues” 1984, Vol. 1, No. 1.
C. Dilnot, The State of Design History. Part II: Problems and Possibilities, „Design Issues” 1984, Vol. 1, No. 2.
S. J. Eskilson, Graphic Design: A New History, Yale University Press 2007 (lub inne wydanie).
K. Fallan, Design History. Understanding Theory and Method, Oxford, New York 2010.
C., P. Fiell, Design. Historia projektowania, Warszawa 2015.
A. Findeli, Design History and Design Studies: Methodological, Epistemological and Pedagogical Enquiry, „Design Issues” 1995, Vol. 11, No. 1.
magazyn „Formy”, nr 2/2019 Wokół Bauhausu, formy.xyz
A. Forty, Objects of Desire. Design and Society since 1750, London 1992.
A. Forty, Piękno musi być nieskazitelne, „2+3D” IV/2002.
A. Forty, Words and Buildings. A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, New York 2004.

J. Freeman, The Making of the Modern Kitchen. A Cultural History, Berg 2004.
A. Frutiger, Człowiek i jego znaki, Gdańsk 2007 (lub inne wydanie).
T. Fry, A-M, Willis, Steel. A Design, Cultural and Ecological History, London, New York 2015.
J. Gimeno-Martínez, Design and National Identity, London 2016.
W. Gropius, Pełnia architektury, Kraków 2014.
K. Houston, Ciemne typki. Sekretne życie znaków typograficznych, Kraków 2020 (lub inne wydanie).
E. Howard, Miasta-ogrody jutra, Warszawa 2015.
G. Julier, V. Narotzky, The Redundancy of Design History, http:// www.designculture.info/reviews/ArticleStash/GJVNRedundancy1996.pdf.
R. Kinross, Modern typography. An essay in critical history, Hyphen Press, London 2004.

P. Kirkham, Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, ›Functioning Decoration‹ and the Eamses, „Journal of Design History”, Vol. 11, no. 1/1998.
E. Klekot, Samofolkloryzacja. Współczesna sztuka ludowa z perspektywy krytyki postkolonialnej, „Kultura Współczesna” 2014, nr 1.
Z. Kolesár, J. Mrowczyk, Historia projektowania graficznego, Kraków 2018.
P. Korduba, Ludowość na sprzedaż. Towarzystwo Popierania Przemysłu Ludowego, Cepelia, Instytut Wzornictwa Przemysłowego, Warszawa 2013.

Kosmos wzywa! Sztuka i nauka w długich latach sześćdziesiątych, red. J. Kordjak-Piotrowska, S. Welbel, Warszawa 2014
G. Lees-Maffei, The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm, „Journal of Design History” 2009, Vol. 22, No. 4.

M. Leśniakowska, Modernistka w kuchni. Barbara Brukalska, Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, i „polityka kuchenna”, „Polska Sztuka Ludowa - Konteksty” 2004 t. 58 z. 1-2; s. 189-202.
Made in Italy. Rethinking a Century of Italian Design, red. G. Lees-Maffei, K. Fallan, Bloomsbury 2013.
V. Margolin, World History of Design Volume 1, Bloomsbury 2017.
V. Margolin, World History of Design Volume 2, Bloomsbury 2017.
S. McKellar, P. Sparke, Interior design and identity, Manchester, New York 2004.
P. B. Meggs, A. W. Purvis, Meggs’ History of Graphic Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken 2012 (lub inne wydanie).
J. L. Meikle, Design in the USA, Oxford University Press 2005.
J. L. Meikle, Twentieth Century Limited. Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939, Temple University Press 2001.
A. Midal, Design by Accident. For a New History of Design, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2019.
N. Pevsner, Pionierzy współczesności. Od Williama Morrisa do Waltera Gropiusa, Warszawa 1978.
Piękni XX-wieczni. Polscy projektanci graficy, red. J. Mrowczyk, 2+3D, Kraków 2017.
R. Poynor, No More Rules. Graphic Design and Postmodernism, Laurence King Publishing, London 2013.
M. Rosińska, Archeologia szwedzkiego komfortu: polityka, nauka, konsumpcja, „Mała kultura współczesna”, https://malakulturawspolczesna.org/2014/04/01/monika-rosinska-archeologia-szwedzkiego-komfortu-polityka-nauka-konsumpcja/
M. Rosińska, Utopie dizajnu. Między afirmacją a krytyką nowoczesności, Kraków 2020.
W. Rybczyński, Dom. Krótka historia idei, Kraków 2015.
P. Rypson, Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919-1949, Kraków 2011.
Rzeczy niepospolite. Polscy projektanci XX wieku, red. C. Frejlich, Warszawa 2013.
R. Sennett, Etyka dobrej roboty, Warszawa 2010.
C. E. Schorske, Thinking with History. Explorations in the Passage to Modernism, Princeton, Chichester 1998.
J. Sołtan, On i ja. O architekturze i Le Corbusierze, Warszawa 2020.
P. Sparke, An Introduction to Design and Culture. 1900 to the Present, London, New York 2013.

P. Sparke, As long as it’s pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 2010.
P. Sparke, Design. Historia wzornictwa, Warszawa 2012.
P. Sparke, The Modern Interior, London 2008.

A. Szydłowska, Od solidarycy do TypoPolo. Typografia a tożsamości zbiorowe w Polsce po roku 1989, Wrocław 2018.
The Craft Reader, red. G. Adamson, New York 2019.
The Design Culture Reader, red. B. Highmore, Routlege 2008.
The Design History Reader, red. G. Lees-Maffei, R. Houze, Oxford-New York 2010.
D. Thomas, Wystrzegaj się Futury, Kraków 2019.
J. Tschichold, Nowa Typografia, Łódź 2011.

R. Venturi, D. Scott Brown, S. Izenour, Uczyć się od Las Vegas. Zapomniana symbolika formy architektonicznej, Kraków 2013.
N. Whiteley, Design for Society, Reaction Books 2006.
Widzieć/Wiedzieć. Wybór najważniejszych tekstów o dizajnie, red. J. Mrowczyk, P. Dębowski, Karakter, Kraków 2015.

K. Wilson, Like A ›Girl in a Bikini Suit‹ and Other Stories: The Herman Miller Furniture Company, Gender and Race at Mid-Century, „Journal of Design History”, Vol. 28, no. 2/2015.
J. Woodham, Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity, „Design Issues” 1995, Vol. 11, No. 1.
J. M. Woodham, Twentieth-Century Design, Oxford and New York 1997.

Learning outcomes
SkillsKnowledgeSocial competences

Upon completion of the course, the graduate student will know and understand:

- history and contemporary phenomena in the field of visual arts and design (K_W03)

Description of the requirements for the studio, workshop or teaching aids

- specialized library;
- computer with internet access, camera, microphone and speaker

The weekly number of hours of classes or lectures, the number of ECTS points assigned to the subject and information on the form and completion of the subject are included in the study program and Course Cataloque (information is displayed in Akademus system)


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(en)studia status (en)czas[h] ECTS (en)forma pass
Design / product and visual communication design s.5 (en)o 30 2 lecture 30h
lecture [exam]
lecture [pass]


(en)Semestr 2023/24-WS (en)(Z-zimowy,L-letni)
(en)Kod kursu: #38.24101