Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• has obtained insight in selected exemplary technological domains and how they may contribute to realise sustainable design solutions
• has insight in existing design solutions and challenges within the exemplary domain  
• has gained insight in the technical options and models used within the technical sciences in making solutions operational

Skills

• is able to identify resources in distributed networks of technical, economic and competence capabilities and concepts
• can analyse existing or new value chains and identify the organisational coordination and collaboration needed to realise changes within these
• can understand, analyse and make useful contemporary concepts like platforms, architectures, digitalisation as well as radical and distributed innovation and design

Competences

• is able to synthesise knowledge from a diversity of technological domains and discuss the possibilities for developing sustainable designs of distributed products and systems
• is able to consider conceptualisation strategies for design solutions across objects worlds and point at the challenges for creating temporary stabilised distributed networks
• is able to formulate requirements for a technology in order to obtain sustainable design solutions to a given problem

Type of instruction

Lectures, exercises, case analysis and dialogue with exemplary technological domains. The course is carried out in collaboration with diverse technological domains.

Exam

Exams