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The course begins with a contextual introduction to the historical study, including a broad vision of the concept of art and design in interaction with social and political phenomena. The course makes a general analysis of these expressions, with the Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment in Europe and other Western societies as a starting point until mid-20th century, with some references to contemporary art. It compares theory and representation, form and concept. In the case of avant-garde art, art pieces will be analyzed from the rupture, from the hybridization with graphic art, industrial design, architecture, fashion and advertisement.

This course introduces students to the development of freehand sketches, understood as low-resolution, quick and economical tools that promote exploration, clarity and self-criticism, while illustrating and preparing the process of design.  

The course introduces the processing of different types of digital information, including bitmaps, vectors, timeline (in Flash), and 3D, in order to develop students’ skill to handle different digital tools, so they are sufficiently knowledgeable in the fundamental information of each format, and can therefore understand the inherent features of the next format to which they decide to evolve.  

This course explores the possibilities of paper design, as well as other laminar materials, through various techniques that range from origami to the new systems of flexible production. Paper engineering is a design tool where the dialogue with the material triggers learning processes different from those of traditional two-dimensional sketching (be it on paper of a computer).

The goal of this course is the provide students skills in the handling of materials and processes in the development de sketch models or prototypes, gaining thus a greater knowledge and understanding of design at a three-dimensional level, as part of experimentation with a sense of design. The course takes some representative materials (according to didactic purposes) and places them in the hand of students, so they, through a technical orientation, explore with these materials and inquire about the importance of understanding two-dimensional ideas in three-dimensional sketches, which brings them closer to the complexity that boosts confidence to make a design-based decision as part of a project.