The course involves theoritical and critical analysis which leads particularly modern and post-structural view within the frame of narrative and cross-narratives of artifacts, designb objects and experiences.

The conceptual design of smart interactive applications and the recent developments in the area are studied and discussed through presentations and reports of related projects and designs as the main tool of the course.

The course discusses major avant-garde movements in the history of art and architecture, the invention of new art techniques that have altered perceptions of reality, the influences of the reduction of art to a “black square,” utopian city designs, and the idea of “anti-art.”

The body has become an interdisciplinary field of inquiry in the last couple of decades. In this course, we will examine theoretical work that identify and problematize the ways our physical bodies are shaped by social, political and technological forces. The role of design is particularly significant in both empowering and regulating subjects with respect to their embodied experiences. In our technoculture of design, the body increasingly becomes the site for representation and political debate. The course is structured in weekly topics that address body in different contexts, both theoretical and lived.

With the changes in the market and the increasing consumer demands, the necessity for customized products has increased, and with the advantages of technological developments new paradigms have recently been argued. In the recent decades, customization concepts refer mostly to mass customization. The topic develops rapidly all in production and service sectors as well as in the design fields. Within the content of the course, the concepts of mass customization and innovation are discovered with the analyses and practices in design disciplines. Current trends for mass customization are explored, tools and methods related to innovative product development for specific design fields like fashion design are investigated. \n

This course examines the transactions between people and their everyday social and physical environments at an advanced level. Topics include environmental perception and cognition, spatial behavior such as personal space and territoriality, physical settings where we live, work, and learn, in addition to how these issues could be reflected on different areas of design.

This course focuses on Jean Baudrillard’s simulation theory and contemporary art issues in modern societies.

This course aims to discuss the use of technology in various fields of design, in daily life and our designed environment, and in the future; using philosophical and political viewpoints. Readings and discussions of related literature will be the main tool for this course.

This course is an experimental course based on fiber art and creative practices. It has been designed to offer experimental techniques and different materials in creating fiber art objects.

This course is interested in the whole spectrum of the mind and the ideas of different fields. It is not confined to ideas only in politics or in philosophy. It gives more attention to the ideas of science, to the movements of literary style, and to the innovations of the arts.

This course has been designed to offer new insight into design research in response to growing interest in interdisciplinary possibilities within the art-design-science triangle. Critical readings, discussions, educational material preparation, and short-term design research projects will be the main educational tools for the course.