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Directorate: Curriculum FET

SUBJECT and GRADE DESIGN Grade 10


TERM 4 Week 1
TOPIC The Industrial Revolution: The beginning of Modern Design Movements and ideas.
AIMS OF LESSON The change in the mindset of the modern designer and new design solutions vs new technology.
RESOURCES Paper based resources Digital resources
Grade 10 textbook p. 294 Industrial Revolution:
https://wcedeportal.co.za/eresource/159031
Other relevant digital resources: The WCED eportal:
https://wcedeportal.co.za/browse/subjects/Design
INTRODUCTION • You should already know the background of the ancient and classical movements and the
development from Greece to the Victorian Era.
• Inventions and new technology of these periods of art and design before the Industrial Revolution.
• The Industrial Revolution is the period that separate the old and the new world of art and design.
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS You should be able to: CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE
• Explain/describe and understand the key concepts/definitions that FOLLOWING:
that took place from 1850 onwards in the agricultural,
manufacturing and transport sectors. What influences did it have on • Mass-production
designers? How did the consumer market change? • Skilled craftsmen
• Understand the inventions such as the steamboat, electricity and • Cottage industries
railway system that connected artist and designers with new ideas. • Serf
• Understand the invention of the camera, letter press and the use of • Mechanisation
coal for steam energy. The shift from handmade objects and cotton • Urbanisation
industries to machine made industries. • Handmade
• Explain the skills and knowledge of creating durable objects vs the • Rural economy
cheap machine-made objects of bad quality. • Commerce
ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENT Read through the attached PowerPoint and decide what new inventions made the biggest impact
on people and why. Draw a mind map to explain it.
CONSOLIDATION After this lesson, you should understand the following:
• Urbanisation – the shift from rural economy to urban economy (manufacturing and commerce).
Overcrowded housing, new social order and child labour in mills.
• New methods of manufacturing meant things could be produced far more cheaply and quickly
than before.
• How certain ‘functions’ of the traditional artists/craftsmen had been replaced by machines e.g.
the camera.
• An enormous increase in efficiency using new methods and materials for a growing consumer
market.
VALUES The Industrial Revolution brought new solutions, inventions and problem-solving to enhance efficiency
and purpose of designers. Modern internet network also links people and ideas like the network of
railway tracks and routes of steamboats during the Industrial Revolution. Inventions like the telegraph,
printing press and telephone made quicker communication and sharing of ideas/influences possible.
Mass-communication and mass production started, and the skilled craftsman were threatened.
Today we live in a world of ever changing technologies to better our lives, but there is also many
that feel we should embrace simpler lifestyles with handmade and self-produced goods, e.g. your
own vegetable garden. What are your thoughts on this? What are the values that we lose in this
never-ending search for new technologies?

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