School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsDesign IssuesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101080.2
Discipline: GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIES
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
The content of Level 1 and 2 Design Key Program units.
Equivalent Units
100613 - Design Issues: Animating the Image, 100618 - Styling the Body, 100612 - Graphic Literacies, 100616 - Consumer Culture, 100617 - Imaging the City, 100619 -Women and Design, 100614 - Digital Worlds
About this Unit
This unit situates the theoretical concepts of technology, consumerism, urbanism and gender in real contexts of contemporary design practice. In seminars students will engage with these concepts as key issues that are negotiated in design texts, debates and practice. Lectures will contextualise the concepts with respect to a cultural history of ideas, practices and events and explore their emergence as issues for design discourse.