MAPD4210 Design and Culture Emneplan

Issues concerning design and culture require designers to adopt a broad, humanistic point of view. In this course, students will enhance their knowledge and awareness of cultural values and meanings, and their impact on design. Design is widely acknowledged as an increasingly multifaceted field, involving communication and interaction between people and material culture. Communication is complex, and language is key to creating meaning.

Design comprises several forms of articulation, and in this course, students are challenged to use and interweave visual, material, and verbal articulation to create new meaning. The course introduces strategies for integrating research methods to foster aesthetic awareness, empathy, criticality, and reflexivity, which can be activated in the development of products or services for chosen cultural contexts.

Admission to the Master's programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved an advanced level in the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has:

• knowledge about how design culture can have an impact on developing products and cultural values
• knowledge about how design culture works as a bridge between design history and modern society
• attained knowledge of methods that involve documentation of relational matters e.g., (i) between products (things) and people, (ii) products and environment
• a good understanding of how aesthetic awareness works as a crucial factor in informed design practices
• a good understanding of how reflexivity and criticality work as crucial factors to challenge established perspectives and norms in the field

Skills

The student can:

• use aesthetic practice-based methods to enhance exploratory and analytical processes and to communicate the design process and the results
• use methods for documentation, e.g., auto-ethnographic method, to uncover and describe materialized processes and fieldwork
• interweave different forms of knowledge from practice and theory by using various forms of articulation (materialized, visual, and text)
• use methods to communicate the design process, and the results, the product(s) in a cultural context

General competence

The student has a developed understanding for:

• the relevance of knowledge of cultural values and meanings and their impact on design
• responsibility for the development of design in a culturally sustainable context

Lectures, excursion, workshop, various platforms for presentations, discussion and reflection, self-study.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Project description with a defined research field, aim(s), research question, and theoretical and methodological approach (500-700 words and visualizations integrated in the text).
• Participation in an oral presentation and dialogue; (i) communication of the project, (ii) constructive feedback of the projects to fellow students.

Individual or group portfolio examination. The portfolio consists of:

• Product in optional/relevant media.
• Research-based design project/proposal (2500-3000 words and visualizations integrated in the text).

The examination result can be appealed

Emnet handler om hvordan muskel- og skjelettsystemet, nervesystemet og sanseorganene er oppbygd og fungerer, samt samspillet mellom disse i det friske mennesket. Grunnleggende kunnskap i anatomi og fysiologi er nødvendig i fysioterapi for å forstå kroppens normale funksjoner og for å kunne gjennomføre undersøkelser og behandling. Emnet utgjør første del av to, og dekker grunnleggende anatomi for overkroppen (trunkus), beina, hode og halsen.

Studenten må være tatt opp på studiet.

Etter gjennomført emne har studenten følgende læringsutbytte definert i kunnskap og ferdigheter:

Kunnskap

Studenten kan

• forklare oppbygningen av kroppens muskel- og skjelettsystem og nervesystem, og sammenheng mellom disse
• redegjøre for sammenhengen mellom muskel- og skjelettsystemets struktur og funksjonelle egenskaper
• redegjøre for sammenhengen mellom nervesystemets struktur og funksjonelle egenskaper
• redegjøre for sanseorganenes oppbygning og funksjon
• identifisere og beskrive overflate strukturer av kroppen, samt beskrive fremgangsmåte for palpasjon
• redegjøre for anatomisk normalvariasjon i muskel- og skjelettsystemet
• redegjøre for smertefysiologi, herunder nociseptiv signaloverføring, moduleringsmekanismer og smerteprosessering i hjernen

Ferdigheter

Studenten kan

• identifisere og beskrive anatomiske strukturer i muskel- og skjelettsystemet og nervesystemet med presis fagterminologi.
• beskrive bevegelsesretninger, akser og plan med presis fagterminologi