Descriptif
This course prepares you to discover how consumer culture is designed by manufacturing and industry through exploring weekly themes, or movements, which have had a major impact on how we live, eat and dream. The three main themes include world building or shaping stories, data dives or designing information and speculative or critical design futures. You will discover how creative initiatives get started, moving from case studies of the beginnings of modernity towards a highly sophisticated industrialized entertainment industry or even the commercial art behind the products that make up your fridge (keep in mind the global food industry has yearly revenues that more than double consumer electronics). You will learn how to contextualize a world flooded with products and develop a deeper understanding of how the creative sector drives and sometimes questions the future through the medium of art and design.
Objectifs pédagogiques
You will develop practical, conceptual and analytical skills. Your ongoing project will be an individual process book, which is a visual research tool that creative teams use as a weekly research journal, sometimes adapted into eventual communication tools or a development pitch for clients or partners for most any creative initiative.
Diplôme(s) concerné(s)
- MScT-Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance
- Echanges PEI
- MScT-Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management
- Titre d’Ingénieur diplômé de l’École polytechnique
Parcours de rattachement
Format des notes
Numérique sur 20Littérale/grade réduitPour les étudiants du diplôme Titre d’Ingénieur diplômé de l’École polytechnique
Le rattrapage est autorisé (Note de rattrapage conservée)- Crédits ECTS acquis : 3 ECTS
Pour les étudiants du diplôme Echanges PEI
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 3 ECTS
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 3 ECTS
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MScT-Energy Environment : Science Technology & Management
L'UE est acquise si note finale transposée >= C- Crédits ECTS acquis : 3 ECTS
Programme détaillé
The course is divided into three parts: Storytelling, Information Design, Speculative Design (which take its cues from the research being done at MIT Media Lab, Pasadena Art Center and Royal College of Art. The term was first coined by Bruce Sterling (a sci-fi writer and contributor to Wired Magazine).