Facilitating Technological Transformations in Private, Public and Community Organizations

2024/2025

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

Name of examFacilitating Technological Transformations in Private, Public and Community Organizations
Type of exam
Oral exam based on a project
ECTS15
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingExternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleFacilitering af teknologiske transformationer i private, offentlige og samfundsmæssige organisationer
Module codeTBTANK22201
Module typeProject
Duration1 semester
SemesterSpring
ECTS15
Language of instructionEnglish
Empty-place SchemeYes
Location of the lectureCampus Copenhagen, Campus Aalborg
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Study BoardStudy Board of Techno-Anthropology and Sustainable Design
DepartmentDepartment of Sustainability and Planning
FacultyThe Technical Faculty of IT and Design