KNUTD
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

Study programme:

Design (by types)

Degree:

Master of Design

Prescribed period of study:

3 semesters (1 year 6 months)

4 semesters (2 years)

ECTS Credits:

90

120

Language of the study course:

Ukrainian / English

Program aim

Forming and development of the general and professional competences in the area of design focused on the acquiring of the capability to use the methods of informal and social interpretation of the project, the project methods of theoretical and practical work, the essence of the heuristic methods of creative work, the content of the stages of preliminary and project activity, the requirements to planning of the multilevel design complexes

Learning outcomes:

1. Ability to analyze the efficiency of the used methods and means of the development, the artistic qualities of the completed task
2. Ability to carry out a technological analysis on the basis of materials research for presentation of a design product
3. Ability to control the observance of selected technology for realization of the authorial original
4. Ability to ground the theoretical expediency and practical efficiency of the introduction of the project analysis results in the development of design projects and complex design objects
5. Ability to work out the technological conception of the design process conditioned upon the project task
6. Possessing the scientific and practice methods of realization of creative information in the design activity
7. Ability to use progressive methods and means of planning, that take into account the psychological features
8. Ability to organize the research and methodical analysis of typology and associativeness in tectonics form construction
9. Ability to select and apply the various types of scientific methods of information processing, realize the processing and analytical interpretation of information, summarize the results of research in the project activity
10. Ability to apply the complex approach at conceptual problems solving of planning
11. Sense of locality in modern tendencies and necessities of society with the aim of their use in modern design industry
12. Ability of development of project task and aim, and their explication as a number of project tasks in creation of new design objects
13. Knowledge of basis of prognostication of perspective forms of design objects development
14. Knowledge of typology and methods of design projects organization
15. Knowledge and ability of the rational use of the base ideas about the existent materials and instruments for design, modern information technologies etc. in professional activity
16. A synthesis of project decisions on the basis of introduction of results of pre-project analysis
17. Creation of original layouts of synthetic design objects as finished design product
18. Modern ideas about formation of the design-planning process, the main project stages and methods of implementation of their constituents that provide consistent and quality implementation of the project
19. Participation in organization, realization and introduction of the research process results
20. Formation of aesthetic and artistic taste, social outlooks of population