Expected learning outcomes and goals:
1) The students are expected to be able to work independently and use their experience from the previous education in their design projects.
2) All students will be introduced to Systems Oriented Design as a tool and approach, to work with a higher degree of complexity.
3) The students are expected to be able to evaluate their project systemically, regarding scope, impact, synergies and thresholds. They should be able to scope their mapping with relevance to their own specialization.
4) To prepare students for professional design within one of the selected specializations (PD ID or SD) or by SOD or other directions chosen by the student or within a more general (hybrid) direction in design. The students are expected to show maturity in the execution and development of the chosen design direction.
5) To initiate the opening and development of new themes and fields of design.
Knowledge:
Systems thinking provides an approach for developing a deeper understanding of sustainability, ethics, culture, social communication and technology. These aspects will be discussed in lectures but will also be discussed naturally in the projects. The contents of these discussions will be related to the respective projects and will vary according to the project content and themes.
Students will gain a general understanding of systems thinking and especially about SOD. They will develop knowledge of adaptive expertise and competence in opening new design fields.
Skills:
On completing the course, students will have learned the techniques of SOD including GIGA-Mapping, Timeline mapping, Rich Design Space, Zip analysis. They will have experience in facilitation and co-design.
Competences:
On completing the course, the student will gain understanding in a:
DESIGNERLY APPROACH: Provide the student with knowledge in design thinking and in research by design.
AESTHETICS: Give students an understanding that aesthetics are an integral part of GIGA-Mapping and advanced design thinking. Understanding composition and visual thinking as the designer's key overall approach.
SUSTAINABILITY: Understanding the broader concept of sustainability as a systemic concept.
ETHICS: Understanding ethical issues from a systemic approach, in special relation to intended and unintended consequences of design.
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING: Understanding society from a systemic approach. How systems relate and interact with each other and why a holistic approach is needed and how to achieve that.
PROCESS, TOOLS AND METHODS: Make students able to handle an open process where the goal is not a foregone conclusion. Learning the ability to handle the uncertainty that comes from working with great complexity. Learning to recognize the designer's strengths and weaknesses in collaboration with opening up new fields for design. Learning to be both humble and courageous.
Learning the tools, concepts and methods from system-oriented design. Very Fast Learning (VFL) and rich designer (Rich Design Space) taught as concepts to support the handling of complexity. Systemic Design overarching approach and field. System-oriented design specific approach. GIGA-Mapping and timeline mapping, Zip analysis, synthesis techniques, and other tools and techniques.
COMMUNICATION: Learning to communicate with partners. Learning to produce very complex projects in an understandable way.
MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY UNDERSTANDING: Learning to understand the materials and technologies like systems. Depending on the type of project and partner.
