Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

A student who has completed this course:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• has knowledge of the latest international research discussing staging processes and participatory design
• has insight of participatory design and co-design methods and can reflect on the possibilities of using these in design processes involving vulnerable actors
• has knowledge to critically reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of engaging different actors in design processes

Skills

• can design and use boundary objects when staging co-design processes with actors, including vulnerable actors
• can apply different methods to stage co-design processes
• can reflect on the difference between staging a dialogue ‘in situ’, or via a design lab                 

Competences

• is able to independently take professional responsibility of planning and staging co-design processes
• is able to critically reflect on own roles as facilitator of co-design processes

Type of instruction

Reading and analysing texts, lectures and cases, facilitating exercises etc,

Exam

Exams