What is design? · Design as a historical construct · Ways of comprehending design · design based on chronology · design based on geography · humans and artifacts · Challenges of comprehending design as a world construct 

Documentary screening (in-class):
Hustwit, Gary  (dir.). (2009). Objectified.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1241325/. Online link:
https://docur.co/documentary/objectified

Class Activities:
The students will have to identify three viewpoints on design they agree with and disagree with. Class discussion will follow.

Readings: 
Chapter 1: What is Design? in Heskett, J. (2002).Design: A very short introduction. Oxford: OUP.

Basalla, G. (2002). The evolution of technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Early artifacts and their developments · humans and artifacts · stone tools  · Paleolithic stone tools · Neolithic stone tools ·

Class Activities:
Discussion of muscle power, types of tools, different ways of making tools

Readings: 
Chapters 1,2: Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Discussion of Assignment 1 topics

World Artifacts ·  cross-cultural exchanges · crafts and craftsmen · weapons, warfare and architecture 

Start work on Assignment 1. Discuss plans with instructor.

Class Activities:
Discussion of the intermingling of material, skills and workmanship

Documentary:
Wate, John (dir.) Samurai Sword: Making of a Legend.
Online Link: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/samurai-sword-making-legend/

PBS (prod.). Secrets of the Dead - China's Terracotta Warriors.  
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/chinas-terracotta-warriors-watch-the-full-episode/844/
Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GCnZmmk9Q 

Readings: 
Chapters 3, 4, 6: Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Medieval Europe and the Islamic world 

Chapters 3, 4, 6: Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Renaissance Europe and Ottoman Empire 

Class Activities:
• Submit Assignment 1
• Work and discussion of Assignment 2

Readings: 
Chapters 5, 7: Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Transitions in Asia, Africa and Americas · Major themes – redux

Class Activities:
• Work and discussion of Assignment 2

Readings: 
Chapters 5, 7: Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Industrial Revolution in Europe and America · Age of Exhibitions and the proliferation of design activity: Great Britain and Europe ·  

Documentary screening
Black, Jeremy (pres.). Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz9d6

Class Activities:
Discussion of technology, design, history and culture and its impact on future generations.

• Submit Assignment 2
• Rework on Assignment 1

Readings: 
Chapter 8,9 in Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Chapters 1,2, 3 in Forty, A. (2005). Objects of desire: design and society 1750-1980. London: Thames & Hudson.

Craft Ideal and the Art movement: Britain and elsewhere · Art Nouveau and Decoration · North America and Europe ·      

Class Activities:
• Rework on Assignment 2
• Reworked Assignment 1 submission

Readings: 
Chapters 5, 6 (Part II) from Raizman, D. S. (2004). History of modern design. Upper Saddle River, NJ; London: Prentice Hall; Laurence King Pub. (New versions of the texts are also available)

Chapter 10,11,12 in Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

The colonies and the designs of the colonized · Challenges of industrialization ·  industrialization and factory system

Documentary screening
Geographic History. The assembly lines.

Class Activities:
Discussion of industrialization as a background for growth of design and mass production.

• Start work and discussion of Assignment 3
• Assignment 2 submission

Readings: 
Chapters 7,10 (Part II and III) from Raizman, D. S. (2004). History of modern design. Upper Saddle River, NJ; London: Prentice Hall; Laurence King Pub. (New versions of the texts are also available)

Chapters 13,14, 15, 16 in Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: Prehistoric times to World War I. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Modern Design in North America and Europe · Modernism and Mass Culture
· Design between the World Wars

Documentary Screening:
Kinmonth, Margy (dir.) (2016). Revolution new art for the new world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09f2m3p

Class Activities:

• Discussion of Assignment 3
• Assignment 2 is given to students for revision

Readings:
Chapters 2, 3, 4  from Woodham, J. M. (1997). Twentieth century design. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 

Chapters 8,9 (Part II and III) from Raizman, D. S. (2004). History of modern design. Upper Saddle River, NJ; London: Prentice Hall; Laurence King Pub. (New versions of the texts are also available)

Chapters 17-30 in Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: World War I to World War II. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

World War II and its impact · World war II and beyond · International modernism and mass culture after World War II

Documentary screening: 
General Motors (prod.) (1958). The American Look.

Class Activities:

• Submit Assignment 3
• Continue work on Assignment 2

Readings:
Chapter 37 in Margolin, V. (2017). World history of design: World War I to World War II. London, New York: Bloomsbury.

Chapter 5 from Woodham, J. M. (1997). Twentieth century design. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

1960s and beyond · postmodernism and changing styles · Changing comprehension of East and the West · Global products and systems · the challenge of the future.

Class Activities:

• Assignment 3 is given back to students for revisions
• Revised assignment 2 is collected from students

Readings:
Chapters 6, 8, 10  from Woodham, J. M. (1997). Twentieth century design. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

Chapters 11-16 (Part IV-V) from Raizman, D. S. (2004). History of modern design. Upper Saddle River, NJ; London: Prentice Hall; Laurence King Pub. (New versions of the texts are also available)

Discussion of Key components and major ideas of the course
Discussion of class arrangements for Exhibition next week 

• Assignments 1 and 2 are returned to students 
• Comments are provided on revised Assignment 3 in class