TAD3214 Contemporary discourse in design

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Approach existing designs with a critical sense of their deeper social and aesthetic values as well as the popular connotations of their styles;

2. 2

   Discern symbolic associations in design and express links with a historical vocabulary of images and metaphors which operate in traditional interpretations;

3. 3

   Support your intuitive opinions either in favour of a design or against certain designs with reasoned argument and engage the language of criticism in debating the sense or the vanity of certain spaces and objects;

4. 4

   Engage in the imaginative task of analysing design in ways which reveal its strengths and weaknesses;

5. 5

   Project discriminating judgements with a sense of critical rigour which explores and challenges the existence of the principles of design;

6. 6

   Feel comfortable with iconoclastic views of design classics wherever a coherent or poetic reason for disapproval seems justified.