STUDY PROGRAMME
Design

AFAM CODE
ABPR17

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course approaches the theme of community design, that is design focused on the development of products, spaces, events or services targeted at the community, based on the acquisition of effective methodological tools to research and implement projects, as well as on the investigation of different approaches to the project that come from an anthropological study of the community. The supplementary didactic module provides the enhancement of knowledge in the fields of community design and anthropology.

The programme grants 12 credits, divided as follows:

• COMMUNITY DESIGN: 8 CFA

• ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: 4 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

COMMUNITY DESIGN:

• Develop products, services, spaces for the community

• Adopt efficient methodologies for projects that aim at the development of social innovation projects

• Thoroughly analyse and understand a project brief

• Carry out research to identify a wide reference system for personal projects

• Efficiently represent the project

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY:

• Develop in-depth, thorough knowledge of advanced cultural anthropology and sociology concepts, focusing on some research themes that the disciplines share with demography and social history

• Develop skills and methodological tools to approach crucial issues in this study field

COMMUNITY DESIGN:

• Spaces, products and services for the community

• Concept, moodboards, references, inspiration

• Techniques, codes and languages used in community design

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY:

• Cultural anthropology and sociology

• The anthropological idea of culture

• Role of individuals in nowadays’ society

• Ethnographic method, cognitive languages and processes, sensoriality and rationality

• Anthropology of body and emotions as a unifying element for other cultural aspects

This is a theoretical/project based course. Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in both modules may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips, workshops

• Development of individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

The didactic modules that make the course will be assessed separately. The final grade will result from the weighted average of all marks. Assessment is based on a check of learnt skills and technical abilities, and may include:

• Oral exam

• Papers

• Complete projects

• Assessed revisions or mid-term tests

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professors during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students during the course.

All bibliographic details will be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.