PLDS
2245
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Fall 2011
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Faculty:
K. Alexa Griffith Winton
This course will provide a critical history of modern materials as they relate to architecture, furniture design, product design, and fashion, taking into account relevant social, economic and environmental issues. Across the last century, new technologies, often drawn from science and industry, have allowed designers to continually expand the limits of form and function in furniture design, architecture, fashion and beyond. While many of these innovations have had a positive impact on the constructed environment, their effect on the natural world has been much more problematic. Industrial processes often consume large amounts of resources, and environmental contamination was a common byproduct of many twentieth-century materials. The aim of these this course is to create an awareness of the full implications of materials choices in design, from the formal to the political. Pathway: Design Studies
