Overordnede kursusmål
The course aims to equip students for real world engineering design
problems where one design method is often insufficient to
adequately address a problem. The course has been specifically
designed to avoid overlap with the Design and Innovation Bachelor
program. It adds new skills, tools and methods relevant to Design
and Innovation as well as other students interested in this area.
These take two main forms: Synthesising and applying multiple
design methods in a cohesive process; Understanding, applying and
reflecting on design methods.
The application, synthesis, reflection on, and modification of a
wide range of design methods prepares the student to not only react
effectively to complex changing problems but also to effectively
plan, manage and improve the overall process. The course brings
together a student’s existing and new design knowledge in order to
tackle a real world design challenge.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Apply design methods in design and innovation processes.
- Translate design theories into reflective practices.
- Apply both concept stage and detail stage design methods to
technical and behavioural problems.
- Apply both technical and behavioural theories in design
methods.
- Critically reflect on the design process, the design methods
used, and their success or otherwise.
- Use this critical reflection to shape your design identity, and
improve your practices, method use, and overall process
- Communicate the use of, and reflection on, design methods and
process via analytical reports.
- Provide feedback in a multi-disciplinary design team to support
critical reflection and improvement.
Kursusindhold
This course brings together specific design methods as well as the
design process through reflective practice
In the beginning of the course a design case will be presented. The
students will form groups in which they will address the brief by:
1) Designing a process utilising a range of design methods, adapted
to the given case.
2) Execute the design task by applying, reflecting on, and
improving design methods, practices, and process.
The students will be evaluated on their ability to reflect on and
improve their use of methods and process.
In order to support this, the students are taught a range of
reflective practices and approaches to design methods based on both
technical and behavioural theory. For example, core topics will
include reflective practice, the theory of inventive problem
solving, and behavioural design/design for behaviour change.
Furthermore, the students are taught how to fit the methods
together and critically reflect on and improve both the methods and
the overall process.
Litteraturhenvisninger
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Bemærkninger
Kurset foregår på engelsk
Sidst opdateret
08. august, 2022
