Description & Objectives
The University of the Aegean, in this period of its development, and in its naturally occurring role as a fundamental force in the Aegean, seeks to be represented in every significant location in the region. Syros, as capital of one of the most central areas of the Aegean, the Cyclades Islands, and with its thousands of years of history and civilization, was unquestionably a suitable location for the University to open a new School.
The School being founded in Syros is suited to both the history of the island and its wider area, but also to the desire of the University to create the necessary climate for the development of arts, sciences and culture in a region with such a background.
The Department of Product and Systems Design is the first department to open its doors to students, in September 2000. The focus of the department will be on the design of products and systems.
The main objective of the New Department is to produce graduates who will be able to use creatively new technologies, sciences and arts for the design of solutions that are usable and functional for various applications from varying areas covered by the Graphic and Applied Arts, Product Design and Industrial Design. In this way the department will respond to both the current and future needs of the industry and organizations worldwide.
The programme of the New Department aims to cover all aspects of the design of products and systems by means of creative use of knowledge and ideas from a wide range of arts and sciences while emphasizing the use of new technologies. Thus the programme defines and supports the creative processes of design in line with modern international trends that consider Design as the art of communication for the recognition of problems and the conception and creation of products and systems which are appropriate with regards to their form, their content their functionality and their value for human use and action.
The basic subjects, that result in key themes linked to the programme of the department and that also characterize the Department’s main directions, are the following:
Presently we are witnessing a new generation of Design Schools that are modeling the philosophy of design in relation to the needs of the 21st century. More specifically, these Schools attempt to meet those needs that are evolving on a global scale and place the discipline of Design in a central role along with the social, economic and technological developments that are shaping our new world. What is aimed at is the specification and the support of processes of active design according to the contemporary world trends. These trends consider design an art of communication for the recognition, conception, and creation of Products and Systems which are the proper ones in terms of form, content, function, and their value in human action.
The current design of problems requires new specialities. They need people who have acquired knowledge and the ability to apply this knowledge for the design of systems and products. The graduate will be able to intervene creatively in all the phases of the life cycle of the product or the system from the ‘raison d’etre for new designs which may be a result of market research, the form of the product or system which may be concerned with aesthetic approach as well with the usability design right up to the design and construction of the prototype and the design of its production.
In accordance with the international practice, graduates of the department, as System or Product Designers will conceive, plan and create products and systems appropriate for human environments and conditions, making creative use of knowledge and ideas from the sciences and the arts.
The rise of the Information Society and increase of Globalization, the emergence of new views, expectations and needs are creating new industries and services, that in turn result in the generation of new forms of systems and products. The graduates, having the benefit of a holistic knowledge viewpoint for Design will be in a position to meet the needs that are becoming apparent wordwide in the labour market, in a wide range of areas that require holistic Design. These areas are currently often situated in production, industry, and business, especially electronic publishing/printing, or the design of the content and appearance of multimedia for various applications, such as design of products or services in digital form, or for their promotion via the Internet or other electronic means in the general area of Electronic Commerce.
It is also worth noting that the synthesis of the courses offered by the department does not exist in other Greek Higher Education Institutes, in contrast to other countries with a large and increasing number of Design Schools.
Πέμπτη, 3 Ιουλίου 2008, babis