Unit

School Of Communication, Design And Media

Design Issues: Styling the BodyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100618.1

Discipline: GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIES

Student Contribution Band: 105

Level: 2

Credit Points: 10

Prerequisite
10931 Design Issues 1: The Design(ed) World OR 100595 Understandings of Design AND 11080 Design Issues 2: Modernism and Postmodernism OR 100596 20th Century Design Histories

About this Unit
Recent cultural and technological changes demand a re-conceptualising of the design body and its representation. Matters of the body are frequently oversimplified as God-given or natural. This unit sets out to explore the complex entities called bodies from two points of view that involve designers: the design of the 'living body' and designing 'the body as a subject in representation' in order to understand their relationship of mutual effect. This unit looks at the design and styling of the body as an activity directed towards the construction of a certain kind of 'self' with identities, a lifestyle, a gender, a sex, a sexuality, an image and a social status.