B1. User centered design

B2. Design for sustainability

B3. Social design

B4. Design for self-production

B5. Experience design

B6. Experimental and speculative methods

B7. Prototyping for design and evaluation

B8. Collaborative and participatory design methods

B9. Sustainability assessment methodologies

B10. Oral presentation and discussion

B11. Graphic media

B12. Scale Models

B13. Models and prototypes

B14. Contextual and white background product photography.

B15. Setting-up an exhibition

The main purpose of this assignment is to promote and programmatically develop its main pedagogical components operating through small blocks of practical work in the form of drawing exercises. To this end, this assignment will use a variety of teaching strategies of diverse complexity, depth and length – which rely on the implementation of the objectives of the assignment through permanent and creative conversational student participation. The contents are as follows:

B1. Reading and understanding the visual world and its objects

B2. The importance on the understanding of the genesis of the forms in objects

B3. Drawing within the objects

B4. The objects in the design process

B5. The role of drawing in design

The programmatic contents are organized in seminars, organized in two major working platforms wich aim to reflect the current
relevance and diversity of product design approaches.

B1. Critical Design studies:B1.1 Design in academic context

B1.2 Design, decolonization and collective imagination

B1.3 Inclusive Design

B1.4 Curatorship as Design

B1.5 Design and Pedagogy

B2. Technological processes and matter

B2.1 Innovation and sustainability

B2.2 Industry 4.0: Digital product optimisation

B2.3 New manufacturing processes

B2.4 Design for complex systems

B2.5 UX and Human-Centered Design

B1. Diverging processes and creative release

B2. Link between control and experimentation in design

B3. Interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary concepts

B4. Degrees of freedom in design

B5. Ethical and aesthetic positioning

B6. Heuristic process

B7. Map of references

B8. Individual and cultural identity

B9. Emotional relationship with the project

B10. Emotional dimensions of use

B11. Territories of design performance

B12. Formulation of a work topic in design

B13. Relevance to the project

B14. Auto-production

B15. Succinct application of the report model adopted in the MDP

B1. Design as knowledge
B2. Design research models: Research into/through/for Design
B3. Convergences and divergences between Design Research, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.
B4. Design Research in the academic context.B5. Research relevance and socio-cultural context.
B6. Replacement of the “client” by notions of “public” and / or “social group”
B7. Design as an agent of change.
B8. Complexity and “Wicked problems”
B9. Action/research methodology applied to design B10. Prototyping as validation methodology.
B11. Prototypes testing and evaluation.B12. Registration and presentation of an action/researchprocess.
B13. Collection, mapping and interpretation of theoretical and practical references.
B14. Organizing and writing a scientific text.
B15. Organizing and writing a research proposal.B16. Citation standards for bibliographical sources

B.1. General concepts.
B.1.1. Stategic concepts: means and ends.
B:1.2. Strategic Design and strategy in business context
B.1.3. Sistemic Design.
B.1.4. Business and strategic designa. production by the designerb. on-line commercec. Industrial Production
B.2. Work organization: designer and other professionals
B.2.1. The industrial/ The entrepreneur
B.2.2.The comercial
B.2.3. The marketeer
B.2.4. The manager
B.3. Design and strategy
B.3.1. The competitive advantage
B.3.2. The chain value
B.3.3. Product, servisse, experience
B.3.4. Innovation differentiation and optimisation .
B4. Metaproject
B4.1. Frame, concept and vision
B4.2. Project and metaproject
B4.3. Strategic positioning
B5. Metaproject
B5.1. analisis
B5.2. product choice
B5.3. variables analisis
B5.4. Strategy as a product dimention

B1. The function of design criticism
B2. The critique of design in the context of criticism in general
B3. The public discussion about design: external and internal discourse
B4. Critique in design practice
B5. Critique in research through design
B6. Several critical analysis plans: functional, social, cultural, economic, environmental, technological, political, etc.
B7. Structure and writing of a critical text
B8. Presentation and criticism of the development and results of a research project through design
B9. Organisation of a public presentation
B10. Curatorship and critical selection of expository elements
B11. Synthesis and argumentation in the context of a public presentation
B12. The debate and position of the arguer

B1. The syllabus will be discussed and approved by the advisor according to the maturity and skills of the student and the nature of their individual project.

B1. The syllabus will be discussed and approved by the advisor according to the maturity and skills of the student and the nature of their individual project.