PLDS
4055
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Fall 2011
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Faculty:
Susan Yelavich
Selections from poetry, fiction, and non-fiction will be analyzed to offer new perspectives on the ways in which design takes on meaning after it leaves the studio and to consider how this literature might inform design in the studio. For example, Orhan Pamuk's mystery about 16th-century Turkish illustrators, My Name is Red, offers insight into the values of realism and abstraction; Charles D'Ambrosia's magazine essay on a "Russian Orphanage" speaks to the power of personal interiors. Excerpts from these and other works by writers such as Shirley Hazzard, Nicholson Baker, and Dave Hickey will be read, discussed, and used as models for essays that students will write about their own work. Readings will be chosen across disciplines, including architecture, fashion, interiors, communications, product design, and landscape design. Pathway: Art and Design Criticism and Writing
