Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

A student who has completed this module:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• has knowledge of the complexities and interrelations between product, service and system developments and strategies for how to change them
• has knowledge and understanding of existing design methods and tools, their limitations, and how to experiment with improvements
• has knowledge of how to stage of collaborative design processes

Skills

• can carry out a theoretically informed empirical analysis of sustainable challenges related to current design and innovation of products, services and systems
• can conceptualise ideas and design solutions oriented to create and support changes towards sustainability
• can co-design a design solution and a reconfigured sociotechnical network of relations
• has the ability to identify and apply the relevant technical knowledge necessary to understand the design problem and possible solutions
• can professionally pitch a business idea based on a design solution

Competences

• can give a reflected criticism of existing design knowledge and methods and suggest relevant design approaches
• can clearly present and communicate the content and outcome of the project academically and demonstrate the practical implications to collaborative partners in the field
• has ability to conceptualise design solutions across disciplinary boundaries and sectors based on theoretically informed empirical analysis
• Can reflect on the limitations of considering engineers, designers and other experts as providers of  purely technical expertise (PBL)
• Can reflect on his/her own ability to operate and contribute to teamwork in an intercultural context (PBL)

Type of instruction

Project is carried out in teams and planned in cooperation with an external partner. The project offers instructions in engineering design methods, staging of participatory design and qualitative interviews.

Exam

Prerequisite for enrollment for the exam

• Each student must prepare and hand in an individual physical portfolio before hand in of the project report.

Exams