Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The project module focuses on facilitating digital transformations in industry or public organizations, considering existing problems on science and/or technology. This module is anchored in the Research group of Techno-Anthropology and Participation, Department of Planning.  

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• present approaches to the interplay between processes for digital transformations, and organizational practices and goals. 
• present societal, cultural, or institutional problems on digital transformations.  
• present participatory research methods to facilitate digital transformations. 

Skills

• draft a plan for how to facilitate a participatory process of digital transformations.  
• independently develop and carry out a study design that can contribute to digital transformations.  
• map controversies around cutting edge science and technology and use it to identify relevant actors and issues. 
• share individual methodological skills with peer group members. 

Competences

• apply a variety of approaches to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in digital transformations. 
• propose solutions to problems and ethical dilemmas that may arise in digital transformations. 
• communicate the rationale and results of the proposed digital transformations. 

Type of instruction

Project module. Please refer to §17 of the curriculum about the structure and content of the programme.

Exam

Prerequisite for enrollment for the exam

• An approved PBL competency profile is a prerequisite for participation in the project exam

Exams