Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

During the project module the students will work with the development of experience design concepts (and prototypes) in media arts cultures, which will be focused on the 1 semester's identification of problems and relevant areas of attention within the field of media arts cultures - aesthetically, politically, socially, institutionally.

The module will enable the student to develop a theoretical and critical discourse analysing experience design processes, and use design-based methodologies to address problems within the field of media arts cultures.

During the semester, the students will be analyzing different examples of experience designs (or designs aimed for public use and consumption) and their contexts to develop a critical perception skills and engage in critical discourses; furthermore,students will be asked to engage in constructing their own experience design processes, whereby the acquisition of imaginative and visionary competencies are in focus.

Courses and teaching activities may be offered within in the following areas:

• Media Art in (Design) Context - Theories, Histories, Practices, Contexts
• Methods of Critical Making & Cultural Entrepreneurship
• Methods of Creative Making

2nd semester project module "Experience Design in Media Arts Cultures" will prepare the student for 3rd semester’s theme of media creation and 4th semester’s master's thesis. The student must be able to reflect on the content of the module relative to the methodologies and theories of the field.

Professional guidance in problem-based learning will be offered in connection with the courses offered to support the project module.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Theories and practices of design technologies
• Principles and methods of collaborative and complex design processes
• Theories of experience design in media art cultures
• Methods of testing and evaluating design processes
• Scientific methods and theories of the field of design and media arts cultures.

Skills

• To use and operationalize theories of design in media art cultures
• To use experience design technologies in design processes
• To use technologies in testing and evaluating experience design
• To argue future cultural and innovative potential of practices in media art cultures
• To use technologies in communicating and disseminating media art cultures
• To analyse, operationalize and implement experience design in media art cultures.

Competences

• To use knowledge about media art cultures to produce experience design for media art contexts
• based on systematic -analytical and creative synthesizing processes
• To evaluate the theoretical and practical problems in the production process, and to select and
• justify appropriate design and development methods
• Reflect on the content of the module using the theory and practices of media art cultures and scientific methodology
• To identify own learning needs and structure own learning in relation to the subject area of
• Experience Design in Media Art Cultures
• To lead, manage and facilitate collaborative and complex design processes.

Exam

Exams