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Syllabus:

Design and Theoretical Subjects 1, 4.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-03-28

Swedish name: Design och teoretiska ämnen 1
This syllabus is valid: 2012-09-03 and until further notice
Syllabus for courses starting after 2012-09-03
Course code: 5ID157
Credit points: 4.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Industrial Design: First cycle, has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Umeå Institute of Design (UID)
Revised by: Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 2025-03-28

Literature

Course literature

Vihma Susann
Designhistoria : en introduktion
Stockholm : Raster : 2003 : 217, [2] s. :
ISBN: 9187215373 :
Mandatory
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Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Design Methods and Critical Historiography: An Example from Swedish User-Centered Design
Göransdotter Maria, Redström Johan
Included in:
Design issues
Chicago : University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design : 1998- : 34 : 20-30 pages
Mandatory

Nilsson Per
The Amphibian Stand: A Philosophical Essay Concerning Research Processes in Fine Arts
Umeå : h:ström text och kultur : 2009 :
ISBN: 978-91-7327-095-3
Mandatory
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Winner Langdon
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” :  In The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in An Age of High Technology.
Included in:
Daedalus
Cambridge, Mass. : The Academy : 1957- :
Mandatory

Seminar articles

Le Bon Gustave
Allmän karaktäristik af massorna
Included in:
Massans psykologi
1912 : [xii], 191 s. : 35 pages

Towards a new architecture
Le Corbusier , Etchells Fredrik
New York : Brewer, Warren & Putnam : 2014 : xix, 289 pages :
ISBN: 9781614276050
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Paulsson Gregor
Vackrare vardagsvara
Stockholm : Svenska slöjdfören. : 1919 : 53 s. :

Loewy Raymond
Never leave well enough alone
New ed. : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press : 2002 : 377 s. :
ISBN: 0801872111
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Papanek Victor
Miljön och miljonerna : design som tjänst eller förtjänst?.
Stockholm : Bonnier, 1970 ; (Stockholm : 1970 : 159 s. : ill., diagr. :

Beyer Johan
Statligt stöd till industriell design
Stockholm : Industridep. : 1974 : 49 bl. + :

Taylor Frederick Winslow
Rationell arbetsledning : Taylor-systemet
2. uppl. : Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell : 1916 : 75 s. :

Reference literature

Course literature

Vihma Susann
Designhistoria : en introduktion
Stockholm : Raster : 2003 : 217, [2] s. :
ISBN: 9187215373 :
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Reference literature

Design issues.

Daedalus : journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cambridge, Mass. : The Academy : 1957- :
Reading instructions: Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?" In The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in An Age of High Technology. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. 1986

Nilsson Per
The Amphibian Stand: A Philosophical Essay Concerning Research Processes in Fine Arts
Umeå : h:ström text och kultur : 2009 :
ISBN: 978-91-7327-095-3
Search the University Library catalogue

Seminar articles

Vihma Susann
Designhistoria : en introduktion
Stockholm : Raster : 2003 : 217, [2] s. :
ISBN: 9187215373 :
Search the University Library catalogue

Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
Search the University Library catalogue

Winner Langdon
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” i Langdon Winner, The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology
University of Chicago Press : 1986 :