Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• has knowledge about different design strategies to tackle wicked problems
• can understand challenges concerned with ill-defined and working with complex problems both on a general level and at local levels

Skills

• can identify, characterise, and analyse a subject matter as the focus for the design process
• can apply different design strategies as a response to a wicked problem
• can develop or redesign sustainable business models seeking to support the subject matter
• can enrol interested parties in companies, governmental bodies and / or from civil society in a design process
• can use material objects to visualise and communicate project findings or to facilitate dialogue

Competences

• can reflect upon viable design strategies as a response to wicked and ill-defined problems and consider the possibilities in a design oriented approach
• can reflect upon viable ways of engaging and enrolling actors from a diversity of knowledge, institutional and business domains by taking into account the repertoire of design strategies

Type of instruction

Project assignment, carried out in groups of 4-5 students. The project should be planned in cooperation with a company, an institution or an interest group. Instructions on sustainable business models and project management will support the project work.

Exam

Exams