Course Number: IAT 391
Credit Hours: 3 (lecture-tutorial-lab)
Course Description
Part of the 9-12 Credit ItaliaDesign Field School curriculum.
The first course of four is taught in Vancouver 5 weeks prior
to departure for Italy. Students prepare research plans for use once
they arrive at each of four destinations (Rome, rural Tuscany, Florence,
Milan). The course covers histories of city planning, architecture
and urban design in these venues that live on in contemporary Italian
design.
Field school instruction is in three phases: (1) Vancouver: methodology and preparatory research work; (2) field study on-site in Italy, and - upon return to Vancouver - (3) synthesis and writing-up of research and final arguments. This course fulfills the first phase. All projects will be available for viewing at the ItaliaDesign Field School public website. Students will also present their work to a live audience.
Prerequisite: Completion of 48 credits
Recommended: None.
Corequisite: IAT 392/ IAT 393 (ItaliaDesign Field School).
Special Instructions: None.
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved: None.
Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?
Elective for all SIAT streams. The Field School has an interaction design focus; SIAT’s Interaction Design stream is the primary audience. The expected registration would be 10-15 students per offering. Field School runs annually or bi-annually, in spring intersession. The program is open to non-SIAT majors. Preference in registration is given to SIAT majors.
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of offering thereafter.
First offering: Spring 2006.
Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by sessional or limited term faculty?
Russell Taylor, Ron Wakkary, Jim Budd (all CFL faculty)
Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?
No.
Is this course considered a `duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate course policy? Specify, as appropriate.
No.
Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.
Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course offering.
This course has been offered since 2004 in SFU Surrey curriculum.
Does the course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
No.
Does this course require computing resources (e.g. hardware, software, network wiring, use of computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided.
Software:
Basic Surrey lab setup: Adobe Package: After Effects/
Illustrator, Photoshop and Macromedia Flash
Understanding the roots of Italian design innovation
Introduction to Italian Design History
Contemporary Italian Design Awareness
Introduction to Italian Design History (1 week)
Rome: roots of Italian design (1 week)
Design and Urbanism in Tuscany and the Agrarian Town (1 week)
Florence and the birth of Modern Design (1 week).
Contemporary History of Milanese Design: 1945-present ( 1 week )
Grading
Grading
will be based on team based course projects.
Required Text
Books
Design Directory
Italy
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling
Ross
King, Brunelleschi's Dome