DESIGNING VALUE(S) 2, Dr. Martina Grünewald

Design: Art, craft, economic factor? Value discourses crucially underpin the normative construction of our social lives. This seminar specifically explores how values and value judgments manifest and change around and through the design of our material world. It offers room to review, deepen and extend themes from the first semester and to engage in the craft of scholarship through critical reading, written reflection and discussion of select texts from various literary genres (i.e. scholarly essay, social study, historical analysis, ethnography, expert interview, autobiographical novel, statistical survey). We chart important historical and contemporary understandings of the creation, organisation, localisation and renewal of social, cultural and economic values such as beauty, function, labour, gender, dignity and agency as they impact, and are impacted by, the designer’s professional profile and work.

• (1) A seminar grade requires regular, punctual attendance (5 out of 6 sessions, plus 1 tutorial)
• (2) 50 % of the grade: 5 short written opinion papers on select seminar literature (300-360 words, line spacing 1.5, Times New Roman, text size 12), to be prepared and printed for each session.
• (3) 50 % of the grade: oral presentation and final paper (2000-3000 words = ca. 6 to 8 pages, line spacing 1.5, Times New Roman, text size 12, excl. sources and footnotes)

  Final paper submission until 21/06/2019, noon, as PDF to martina.gruenewald@uni-ak.ac.at, Re.: #DESIGNINGVALUES. Name, course of study, matriculation number and email address are to be listed on the title page. The PDF file is to be named: surname_firstname_matriculationnumber.pdf

The seminar is held in German and English.

Mandatory registration:

• (1) Email with the reference #VALUE! listing your name, course of study, matriculation number, and a sentence in tweet-length (max. 280 characters) on how/whether design is valuable to you, until 03/03/19 at 03.03 pm to gruenewald@uni-ak.ac.at, and
• (2) attendance of the introductory session on 07/03/19.

Attendance is possible and welcome independently from attendance of the previous WS18/19 "Material Culture I" seminar.