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Danish Design
This course offers a survey of Danish design, focusing foremost on the post-war era (ca. 1945-the 1960s).
It concentrates on a design tradition world renowned for, amongst other things, high-quality craftsmanship, functionality, humanism, contextualism, simplicity, comprehensiveness, and creative continuity between tradition and renewal. Design is never merely a question of beautiful forms and surfaces, and therefore this course purposefully explores below the surface. We will examine the wider issues of ethics and aesthetics as exemplified in designs for the Welfare State.
We shall critically question the given topics from different positions as ‘design as common good’, ‘shattering the familiar’, ‘women in DD’, ‘decolonising design history’, and ‘Quo Vadis, DD?’.
The course includes independent field studies of significant local sites which gives opportunities for us to challenge experiential blindness and deepen place-based learning.
This Danish Design course does not directly overlap the course material covered in the Danish Architecture and Urban Design course. Thus, it is completely suitable to enrol in both courses in the same semester.
Course code: HDCB01203U
Credits: 15 ECTS
Duration: 1 semester
Available: Spring and autumn semester.
Note: Example – subject to change
| Lecture | Theme |
|---|---|
| Lecture 1 | What is Design? |
| Lecture 2 | Contemplating Danish Design Values & Designing (for) Everyday Life |
| Lecture 3 | Product Design |
| Lecture 4 | Furniture Design - Part 1 of 2 |
| Excursion 1 | Group Field Study: Louis Poulsen, Design Museum Denmark, Carl Hansen & Son, FDB Møbler & House of Finn Juhl. |
| Lecture 5 | Furniture Design - Part 2 of 2 |
| Lecture 6 | Architectural Design |
| Lecture 7 | Civic Design |
| Lecture 8 | Transportation Design |
| Excursion 2 | Group Field Study: Fritz Hansen Workshop & Danish Architecture Centre |
| Lecture 9 | Guest Lecture by Architect |
| Lecture 10 | Seminar & Lecture: DD in the Blender: Objectifying & Commodifying DD; Shattering the Familiar; Decolonising Design |