Universal design - Insight

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Tutors: Yedidia Blonder and Shanit Adam

The core concept of a universal design approach is to harness into the design process the complex and diverse characteristics and needs of minorities in populations and create a deep, layered and meaningful research process that expands and sharpens the ways of observing and the proposed design solutions.

The course is conducted in the format of research and development teams, consisting of students, staff members and residents of a nursing home / sheltered housing. The teams will work together and design aids and products designed to improve lifestyle in old age. As part of the universal design concept, the products will be intended for the population at large, with an emphasis on a wide range of uses and capabilities.

Students will receive lectures and information on the challenges facing the elderly from a variety of professional partners, will visit and meet with professionals at Yad Sara and a nursing home.

3D Visualization for Presentation The ability to explain your ideas to others (and to yourself) is one of the most accentual tools in the designers toolbox. In recent years alongside the classical methods for developing and presenting an idea (like sketching and modeling) the relatively new field of 3D Visualization is becoming the industry standard of presentation. In the first half of the course we'll be working in Photoshop, learning the basics of 2D rendering and photo manipulation. In The second half we'll learn how to create a photorealistic rendering of your designs using KeyShot (which is one of the industry leading solutions for 3d rendering).

The main purpose of the course is to give to the student a very wide range of drawing technics, all of them based on the rules of both, linear and air perspective. With those skills, he can achieve a real freedom of expression as a designer.

<p>Introduction to Graphic Design The course deals with of visual communication and graphic design. The course provides basic knowledge for the creation of info graphics, 2D presentations and branding. The course is based on combination of text, image and composition exercises.</p>

Prof. Dov Ganchrow

The Industrial Design Department

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

Course name:

Digital Fabrication

Tuesday 10:00-13:00, semester 1

Course synopsis:

The digital space between creator and object has fundamentally changed not only the way in which objects are made but also what it means to be a creator/maker. 

This digital space processes commands, or even generates those commands, guiding material and form realized in the physical world. It is a space wherein corporations lay claims, governments try to regulate, and individual explorers’ experiment, discover and map new territories.

The use and evolution of the term Rapid Prototyping, to 3D Printing, to Additive Manufacturing, are indicative of the changing angle of a technology’s line of progression within a context. The term Digital Fabrication better encompasses a wide breadth of contemporary technologies of which Additive Manufacturing is one type (actually, many).

Through the development of a design project, the course will focus simultaneously on the technical characteristics of digital fabrication as well as its cultural role and implications.

This semester we will be collaborating with the 3D print technology company, Stratasys.

Stratasys is one of the leading 3D print technology players today. They have invested in both developing print technologies and scouting applications – often through the support and collaboration with artists, designers, researchers, and students. The realm of 3D printing directly on existing materials is in its infancy, there is still much territory to cover – now is your chance to explore!