- Docente: Mauro Cazzaro
- Credits: 7
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Mauro Cazzaro (Modulo 1) Alberto Vendrame (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Design (cod. 8182)
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from Feb 17, 2025 to Jun 09, 2025
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from May 16, 2025 to May 21, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student, through confrontation with real cases of design problems proposed in an extended manner or through full-immersion experiences, knows how to identify the margins of obtainable results, undertake a pre-design research path, configure the design process to be adopted and produce a final design, also through physical modelling (for study, for volume control, for presentation to possible clients and for production purposes).
Course contents
The aim of the Industrial Design Course T is to provide the student with the rudiments for the development of a personal design methodology applied to a predefined theme.
An intensive 5-day workshop is planned during the teaching period.
The 'workshop' week will represent a moment of student-faculty co-design, an intensive session of shared work in which homogeneous groups will confront each other on a classic design theme. They will be asked not only to think 'individually', but to adopt a critical and pro-active attitude towards others, suggesting changes, hypothesising solutions, opening up new design corridors. The pace will be intense, punctuated by regular theoretical-practical deliveries that will conclude with a public presentation on Friday during which each group will have to produce a realistic working prototype of the project, supported by graphic tables and a short video demonstration of its operation.
Readings/Bibliography
Lanfranco Cavaglià, “di” Achille Castiglioni, Edizioni Corraini, Torino 2006
Norman Potter, Cos’è un designer, Codice Edizioni, Torino 2010
Donald A. Norman, La Caffettiera del masochista / Psicopatologia degli oggetti quotidiani, Giunti Editore, Firenze 2005
Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison, Super Normal / Sensations of the Ordinary, Lars Muller Publisher, Zurigo 2007/2014
Bruno Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa. Appunti per una metodologia progettuale, Laterza, Bari 1985 – 2006
Bruno Munari, Fantasia, Laterza, Bari 1977 – 1999
Bruno Munari, Codice Ovvio, Corraini, Mantova 2017
Chiara Alessi, Designer senza designer, Laterza, Bari 2016
Stefano Micelli, Futuro artigiano, Marsilio, Venezia 2011
Stefano Micelli, Fare è innovare, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016
Enzo Mari, Autoprogettazione?, Edizioni Corraini, Mantova 2002
Teaching methods
lectures (presentations/slideshows);
Punctual reviews of students' work progress;
Collective reviews of the progress of students' work planned for the various teaching modules (presentations/slideshows by the students and choral discussion with the lecturer);
Monographic lectures and seminars with invited guests (the calendar will be made available at the beginning of the course).
Assessment methods
The examination will be organised in one day, the following outputs will be required:
Coursework
Sketch book
Book describing the design process from concept to prototype
Technical tables
Prototype scale 1:1
In addition, each of the results obtained in the individual teaching modules will be assessed. The criteria will be communicated by the lecturers responsible for the teaching modules. The various assessments will form the final assessment of each student (partly the result of collective work and partly of individual work). Contributing to the formulation of the assessment are
- active participation in the course;
- quality of the work submitted;
- punctuality to lessons and assignments.
Office hours
See the website of Mauro Cazzaro
See the website of Alberto Vendrame