42S06 Sustainability-Driven Innovation

2024/2025

Kursusinformation
Sustainability-Driven Innovation
Engelsk
5
Deltidsmaster
Efterår
Campus Lyngby
This course focuses on the relationship between creativity and innovation, and how design thinking and user involvement can be used to develop socially sustainable solutions through empathy building, use of dialogue tools and design methods. There will be an active focus on the SDG pledge of Leaving No One Behind, where course participants will be introduced to universal design and inclusion.
[Kurset følger ikke DTUs normale skemastruktur]
Aftales med underviser, Aftales med underviser
Mundtlig eksamen og bedømmelse af rapport(er)
The course contains three assignments, out of which two are based on group projects and one is related to the Immersive Learning Project. The purpose of the first assignment "inclusivity challenge, groups are to use the principles of Universal Design and specific ‘Ability Prompt Cards’ to identify exclusion, turn challenges into inclusive solutions, and reflect on the innovation- and market opportunities. The total weight is 45% of the grade. In the second assignment "innovation sprint", groups are to propose an actionable solution to a design challenge. The total weight is 45%. The third assignment (individual assessment, total weight 10%) consists of a written assignment of innovation related to the Immersive Learning Project.
7-trins skala , intern bedømmelse
Salla Marjukka Laasonen , salaa@dtu.dk
Maria Ingeman , main@dtu.dk
Ida Stub Johansson , Lyngby Campus, Bygning 421 , idajoh@dtu.dk
42 Institut for Teknologi, Ledelse og Økonomi
I studieplanlæggeren
Overordnede kursusmål
This course focuses on the relationship between creativity and innovation, and how design thinking and user involvement can be used to develop socially sustainable solutions through empathy building, use of dialogue tools and design methods. There will be an active focus on the SDG pledge of Leaving No One Behind, where course participants will be introduced to universal design and inclusion.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
  • Analyze and reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of involving stakeholders in the design processes.
  • Explain their significance in and for the involvement of different types of participants.
  • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using universal design to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Stage and reflect on the use of workshop co-creation techniques in the design process
  • Design and facilitate an innovation sprint with the support of the acquired learning material
  • Debate the importance of inclusion and universal design in innovation processes
  • Apply appropriate facilitation style in an innovation sprint
  • Provide peer feedback on sustainability driven innovation solutions
Kursusindhold
This course focuses on the relationship between creativity and innovation, and how design thinking and user involvement can be used to develop socially sustainable solutions through empathy building, use of dialogue tools and design methods. There will be an active focus on the SDG pledge of Leaving No One Behind, where course participants will be introduced to universal design and inclusion.

The course is divided into two parts, with the first part (September sessions) focusing on a general introduction to creativity, design thinking, and inclusion. The first part will culminate in an assignment facilitated by the lecturers where the participants utilize tools designed to enable a different focus when developing user understanding to develop a more inclusive solution. The second part will focus more specifically on co-creation, user-involvement, and facilitation of innovation processes. The second part (October sessions) will culminate in an innovation sprint, where the course participants will deploy their knowledge and actively try out different methods and facilitation.
Sidst opdateret
13. juni, 2024