Selective elective course (6 credits)

The course deals with the interaction between new technology and advanced form generation. Highly skilled designers and engineers who work with advanced manufacturing technology will attend the course during different workshops. The end result of the course will be physical products.

The course will work and research through new manufacturing trends, that could be the foundation for advanced form-generation. The course will give insight to the alleged paradigm shift within production technology that could lead to new ways of generating form.

• Workshops and lectures
• Research both individually and in groups

There will be 4 milestones with submission of material. All 4 are compulsory for passing the course. Also, there is an 80% attending required on the workshops.

The semester has an 80% mandatory general attendance and a 90% attendance at lectures and workshops.

Two external sensors will judge the work submitted.

Mandatory reading:

Anderson, C. (2006). The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more. New York: Hyperion.

Berger, J. (1972). Ways of seeing. London: Penguin books.

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Burke, J., & Ornstein, R. E. (1997). The axemaker's gift: technology's capture and control of our minds and culture. New York: Putnam.

Dunbar, R. (1996). Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language. London: Faber.

Eissen, K., & Steur, R. (2007). Sketching: drawing techniques for product designers. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.

Hall, E. T. (1977). Beyond culture. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press.

Hopkinson, N., Hague, R. J. M., & Dickens, P. M. (2006). Rapid manufacturing: an industrial revolution for the digital age. Chichester: Wiley.

Killi, S. (2007). "Custom design: more than custom to fit!" In: Virtual and rapid manufacturing: advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping : proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping, Leiria, Portugal, 24-29 September, 2007 (pp. 777-783). London: Taylor & Francis.

Killi, S. (2010). "Form follows algorithm: computer derived design for rapid manufacturing". In: Innovative developments in design and manufacturing: advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping : proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Research and Rapid Prototyping, Leiria, Portugal, 6-10 October 2009 (pp. 575-580). Leiden: CRC Press.

Kochan, A. (2000). "Audi moves forward with all-aluminum cars". I: Assembly Automation 20(2):3.

Kristiansen, I.M. (2008). "Consious use of product representation techniques". s. 1-16.

Mausbach, A. G. (2009). Paradigm Shift: entering a new age of automobile aesthetics. Vehicle design special session/EV1-a: Ecological road vehicles/Passenger car. Monaco: 10.

Mead, S. (Writer). (2006). The techniques of Syd Mead. Hollywood, CA: The Gnomon Workshop and Design Studio Press.

Norman, D. A. (1990). The design of everyday things. New York: Doubleday/Currency.

Norman, D. A. (2004). Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. N.Y.: Basic Books.

Petroski, H. (1994). Design paradigms: case histories of error and judgment in engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Petroski, H. (1994). The evolution of useful things. New York: Vintage Books.

Petroski, H. (2003). Small things considered: why there is no perfect design. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Petroski, H. (2006). Success through failure: the paradox of design. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Postman, N. (1986). Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business. London: Heinemann.

Robertson, S. (Writer). How to render matte surfaces. Hollywood, CA: Gnomon Workshop.

Robertson, S. Basic perspective form drawing. Hollywood, CA: Gnomon Workshop.

Sennett, R. (2008). The craftsman. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Uddin, M. S. (1997). Axonometric and oblique drawing: a 3-D construction, rendering, and design guide. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Wake, W. K. (2000). Design paradigms: a sourcebook for creative visualization. New York: Wiley.