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Understanding Design
Prof. Nina Sabnani · IIT Bombay
About
We are surrounded by designed objects, from highways that traverse thousands of kilometers to a pen drive that fits a lot in the smallest of spaces. Designers have used their skills to translate ideas and needs into all the objects that we see around us. Design can be interpreted in multiple ways and can mean different things in different contexts. This course aims to create an awareness and understanding of the discipline of design and its multidisciplinary nature. The relevance and value of design and how it impacts society, industry and the environment is established through lectures, case studies and project activities.
This course is for those who are curious to understand what design is and why is it important.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : This course is for students who would like an introduction to the field of design and its relationship with other disciplines. It is also for those who would like to collaborate with designers for their future work. It is open to all. Mainly for Engineer, Design and Management students
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1 : An Introduction to Design
- Lecture 2 : The many notions of design
- Lecture 3 : Design as a process and a product
- Lecture 4 : The evolution of design
- Lecture 5 : Design engages with many disciplines
- Lecture 6 : Design is concerned with the user
- Lecture 7 : Good design, bad design
- Lecture 8 : Users and Contexts
- Lecture 9 : Multiple users, differing contexts
- Lecture 10 : Understanding user experience
- Lecture 11 : Design for a meaningful impact
Week 2
- Lecture 12 : Design and Society
- Lecture 13 : Community and Collaboration
- Lecture 14 : Understanding Contexts
- Lecture 15 : Knowledge and Access
- Lecture 16 : Meeting Needs: Necessity or Luxury?
- Lecture 17 : Function, Context and Consequences
- Lecture 18 : Design & Sustainability
- Lecture 19 : The cost of looking the other way
- Lecture 20 : Sustainability practices in daily life
- Lecture 21 : The perspective of engineering
- Lecture 22 : Understanding embodied energy
- Lecture 23 : The user’s role in sustainability
- Lecture 24 : Framing the world’s future
Week 3
- Lecture 25 : Design & industry
- Lecture 26 : Understanding varied user needs
- Lecture 27 : Success through new materials and manufacturing
- Lecture 28 : Pushing the boundaries of mass production
- Lecture 29 : A Classic chair for all times
- Lecture 30 : Breaking familiar assumptions
- Lecture 31 : Design & Collaboration
- Lecture 32 : Team work
- Lecture 33 : Collaborating with unlikely partners
- Lecture 34 : Principles of collaboration
- Lecture 35 : Design thinking
- Lecture 36 : Feedback and assessment
Week 4
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Bombay
- Department
- Engineering Design
- Teacher
- Prof. Nina Sabnani
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
- Who can watch
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