Mechanical Engineering

The course examines the phenomenon of industrial design and its products in the context of the following themes and contexts within the history of modernity: traditional craft production, applied and industrial arts, the rise of the bourgeoisie, the industrial revolution, mechanization, the growth of markets, neo-classical style, ornamentation and decoration, large-scale commercial production, the `Arts and Crafts? movement, aesthetic reform, the Great Exhibition of 1851, anti-industrial doctrines, industrialization, American-style production, mass and mass production, standardization, interchangeable parts manufacturing, utilitarianism, product diversification, machine aesthetics, `Good Form?, scientific management, Taylorism, rationalization, Fordism, modernism, futurism, purism,konstrüktivizm, `Art Nouveau?, `Deutsche Werkbund?, tip biçimler, kübizm, hazır-yapıt, `De Stijl?, `Bauhaus?, akışkan form, kurumsal kimlik ve imaj, markalaşma, ev, elektrik, işgücünden kazanım, tüketim, tarz, bireysel tercih, yaşam tarzı, statü, tüketimcilik, pop, anti-tasarım, ihtiyaç için tasarım, vb.

This course is intended to give students an idea of the historical conditions that led to the emergence of industrial design as a profession. At the same time, the students are aiming to introduce the basic ideas, theories and arguments that have been produced to describe industrial design games, economics and the lives of individuals in modern society. Another goal is to present a broad vision of an event that has taken place at the intersection of different design areas throughout history: arts, crafts and industry, creativity and commercial gain, style and functional benefit, material objects and human desires, ideology utopia, production and consumption. Finally, it is aimed to examine the design product given to the students and to gain the complementary reasoning skills needed to place it in the historical context in which it emerges and is used and assessed.