Lecture/seminar rooms with blackout, slide projector, video & audio playback equipment.
Library and slide library.

Illustrated lectures; audio and visual presentations; seminars; essay advice tutorials.

This will consist of a written assignment of 2000 words.

This module will examine the interconnections between the theories and practices of art and design, presenting case studies where there have been rich collaborative ventures in educational philosophy and production. It will offer a survey of key movements where art and design have had significant joint roles in making the designed environment look the way it does. Topics will include: design debates; art nouveau and the Wiener werkstatte; Revolutionary art, design and ideology; the Bauhaus; Art Deco and modernity; Pop art, design and consumerism; Postmodernity and its practitioners.

Catterall, C. Stealing Beauty: British design now (London: Institute of Contemporary Art 1999)
Hillier, B & Escritt, S. Art deco style (London: Phaidon: 2003)
Varnedoe, K. Vienna 1900: Art, architecture and design ( New York: Museum of Modern Art 1986)
Waggoner, D. (ed) The Beauty of Life: William Morris & the art of design (London: Thames & Hudson 2003)