Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students who complete this module can:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain different technological innovation concepts, -methods, -tools, -perspectives and -strategies
• explain how innovation and change processes can affect design of technology or design of products
• present principles and methods for developing user-oriented and user-involving design processes

• explain theories of user-designer relations

Skills

• draft an actor oriented innovation and design strategy
• plan and conduct a user/actor-involving design game or workshop
• identify appropriate tools, materials and techniques for facilitation and documentation design processes
• produce a mock-up, prototype, scenario, sketch or other kind of material intermediary outcome of a design process

Competences

• plan, facilitate and organize design processes
• communicate the results of the innovation and design process and the results of the design game or workshop

Type of instruction

Lectures, classroom instructions, exercises, seminars, case analysis, teacher feedback, reflection.

Exam

Exams