73481 - Product Development Processes (A-K)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Moduli: Elena Maria Formia (Modulo 1) Flaviano Celaschi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Design (cod. 8182)

Course contents

Within the Final Synthesis Laboratory, the Course intends, on the one hand, to introduce a critical reflection on the processes, methods and tools of research for design and, on the other, to recall the processes and methods of contemporary design by introducing the students on some particularly topical themes that cross the design action as a subject of scientific study.

The two components are respectively held by Profs. Elena Formia (Module 1) and Flaviano Celaschi (Module 2).

Main contents Module 1: Research for the project

  • Innovation and research: contemporary perspectives
  • Research for the project: nature, methods, characteristics
  • Tools for research and use of sources
  • Preparation for the degree thesis

Main contents Module 2: Project and Innovation

  • Innovation and change
  • Change and project
  • Project and enabling technologies
  • Enabling technologies and transformativeness

Readings/Bibliography

Professors will provide, in their lectures and in the moments of revision, precise references to texts, sites, journals, magazines, and documents available to deepen the topics presented. Bibliographic indications may also be added as a function of further information necessary during the educational path.

Suggested texts (being updated during the period September 2021-January 2022):

  • Celaschi, F. Il design della forma merce, Il sole 24 ore edizioni, Milano 2000
  • Celaschi, F., Deserti, A., Design e Innovazione, Carocci, Roma 2007
  • Celaschi, F., Non industrial design, Luca Sossella, Milano 2017

Teaching methods

During the development of the course students will be offered contributions/lectures lasting about 1-2 hours each, held by the professors and/or by any guests.

The revisions of students' work with other professors of the Laboratorio di Sintesi finale are part of the Course.

Attendance is compulsory. It is surveyed by the teachers in class and students absent in more than 30% of the lessons will not be admitted to the final evaluation.

Assessment methods

Presentation and discussion of the final outputs foreseen for all the modules of the integrated course (final presentation of the works). Each of the results in the teaching modules will be evaluated. The criteria will be communicated by the Professors of the didactic modules. The various evaluations will form an overall final judgment of each student (in part, the result of collective work and, in part, of individual work).

Teaching tools

IOL: teacher-student communications; loading teaching materials; student material deliveries; forum with students / community

TEAMS: virtual classroom

MIRO: for brainstorming and other forms of shared planning;

Presentations/slideshows;

Collaboration with external structures (labs, libraries, etc.);

Participation in conferences, talks, exhibitions and/or educational visits.

Office hours

See the website of Elena Maria Formia

See the website of Flaviano Celaschi