Lecture/seminar rooms with blackout, slide projector, video & audio playback equipment.
Word processing facilities.
Internet access.
Library and slide library.

Illustrated lectures; audio and visual presentations; seminars; essay advice tutorials.
Independent reading, research and writing.

This module invites you to examine the histories of the various objects which make up a familiar domestic situation: the table set to eat. You will look at some of the formative influences on the way objects like cups, cutlery and drinking glasses have evolved and at the traditions and innovations that have shaped them. The module offers you a survey of design movements that have influenced the objects we handle every day. Topics examined will be: rococo and kitsch; industrialisation and consumerism; the arts & Crafts Movement and its heritage; Utility and the rationalisation of the domestic; 'contemporary style' and post-war modernity; the impact of new materials; revivals and survivals in domestic style.

Coursework, consisting of an essay of around 2,000 words in length and a seminar presentation, lasting 10 minutes. [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3]
A Group Presentation of your ideas lasting 10 minutes [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3, & 4]

Maguire, P.J. & Woodham, J. Design and Cultural politics in post-war Britain (Leicester University Press 1997) ISBN 0718501411
McDermott, C. Design Museum: twentieth-century design (London: Carlton 1999) ISBN 1858687101
Woodham, J. M. Twentieth-Century Design (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997) ISBN O912842048
Whiteley, N. Design for Society (London: Reaktion 1993) ISBN 0948462655