| Course Type | Elective Course |
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| Course Level | Master's Degree Without Thesis |
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| Year of Study | - |
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| Semester | - |
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| ECTS | 10 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- It analyzes the historical evolution of art and design (the transition from modernism to postmodernism and digital culture) through the lens of sociological, philosophical, and technological shifts.
- It analyzes visual cultural products and design practices through a critical lens in the context of semiotics, gender, and postcolonial theories.
- By questioning the ecological, ethical, and ideological dimensions of design (the culture industry, greenwashing, planned obsolescence), it develops speculative arguments regarding social issues.
- It discusses the ontological effects of current technological developments?such as artificial intelligence, new media, and posthumanism?on the practices of visual production and exhibition.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | - |
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| Course Description | This course aims to examine how art and design have evolved over time and how they generate meaning within social and cultural contexts. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic and form-focused narratives of art history, it offers a critical, ontological, and sociological perspective on contemporary art and design practices through concepts such as consumer society, semiotics, digitalization, identity politics, and the ecological crisis. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction to Art and Design Culture: Visual Communication Design as an Interdisciplinary Field. The historical evolution of the concepts of ?Art,? ?Design,? and ?Culture,? and the blurring of their boundaries. |
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2nd Week |
Modernity and the Institutionalization of Design: The Industrial Revolution and the transformation of visual production. The Arts & Crafts Movement?s rebellion against machinery, the Bauhaus school, and debates on functionality versus aesthetics. |
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3rd Week |
Postmodernism and the Multiplication of Meaning The collapse of grand narratives: The transition from Modernism to Postmodernism. Pastiche, irony, deconstruction, and rule-breaking in architecture, graphic design, and art. |
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4th Week |
Visual Culture and Semiotics Reading Images: Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. Denotation, connotation, the production of meaning in advertising and design products, and the construction of myths. |
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5th Week |
Consumer Culture and the Culture Industry: Standardized culture from the perspective of the Frankfurt School. Jean Baudrillard and ?Simulacra and Simulation?: Sign value, the design of needs, and commodity fetishism. |
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6th Week |
Technology, New Media, and Digital Culture: The loss of art?s aura in the age of mechanical reproduction. The network society, digitization, interfaces, and the rise of new media art. |
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7th Week |
Midterm Evaluation Week |
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8th Week |
Gender, Identity, and the Body: Feminist art history and the deconstruction of the male gaze in design. |
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9th Week |
Globalization and Postcolonial Design: Center-periphery relations, cultural imperialism, and the homogenization of visual language. Decolonial design and debates on cultural appropriation. |
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10th Week |
Sustainability and Design Ethics: The responsibility of design in the era of the ecological crisis (Victor Papanek). Critique of greenwashing, planned obsolescence, and the culture of circular design. |
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11th Week |
Critical and Speculative Design: A design philosophy that ?asks questions? and provokes, rather than merely solves problems. Constructing alternative and dystopian future scenarios through the approaches of Dunne & Raby. |
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12th Week |
Curatorial Practices and Exhibition Culture: The ?White Cube? ideology. Museum and gallery spaces as a medium of communication and an instrument of hegemony. Exhibition design and the spatial construction of meaning. |
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13th Week |
Future Projections, Posthumanism Algorithmic aesthetics: Debates on creativity and authorship (copyright) in the age of Generative AI. Human-machine interaction and cyberculture. |
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14th Week |
End-of-Term Project and Essay Presentations |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Textbooks:
-Sanatın Kısa Öyküsü, Susie Hodge, Hep Kitap.
-Sanat Tasarım, Murat Yılmaz, Dorlion Yayınevi.
-Believing is Seeing: Creating The Culture of Art, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Peguin Publishing.
-Uygarlık Tarihinde Sanat ve Tasarım, Adnan Tepecik, Sistem Ofset.
Mandatory Reading List:
-Teknik Olarak Yeniden - Üretilebilirlik Çağında Sanat Yapıtı, Walter Benjamin, Zeplin Kitap.
-Modern Sanat, Nilüfer Öndin, Hayalperest Yayınevi.
-Modern Sanatın Felsefesi, Herbert Read, Hayalperest Yayınevi.
-Modern Sanattan Sonra, David Hopkins, Hayalperest Yayınevi.
Recommended Resources:
-Deneyim Olarak Sanat, John Dewey, VakıfBank Kültür Yayınları.
-Bunu Ben de Yaparım! T. Kittl ve Christian Saehrendt, Ayrıntı Yayınları.
-Sanat ve Toplum, Herbert Read, Hayalperest Yayınevi.
-Sanat ve Sanatçılar Üzerine, Sigmund Freud, Dorlion Yayınevi.
-Sanat/Siyaset: Kültür Çağında Sanat Ve Kültürel Politika, Ali Artun, İletişim Yayınları. |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Practice
- Project
- Report Preparation
- Presentation
- Other
- Discussion
- Questions/Answers
- Problem Solving
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Assignment |
1 |
50 |
| Project |
1 |
50 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
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100 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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0 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
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| Preparation for Quiz |
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| Individual or group work |
14 |
2 |
28 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
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| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
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| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
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| Homework |
1 |
20 |
20 |
| Presentation (including preperation) |
1 |
15 |
15 |
| Project |
2 |
20 |
40 |
| Field Research |
2 |
40 |
80 |
| Article Presentation |
3 |
25 |
75 |
| Total Work Load | 300 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 10 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 10 |
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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