📜 Course Description

The aim of this course is to enable students to analyze complex and ambiguous design problems from a critical perspective and to develop creative, reflective, and alternative interaction scenarios using speculative design and narrative techniques.

Upon successful completion of this course, the enrolled students will be gaining the following knowledge, skills and competences:

Analyze complex and ambiguous (wicked) design problems from a critical perspective.
Generate alternative future scenarios using speculative design approaches.
Transform design ideas into narrative forms using storytelling techniques.
Evaluate ethical, social, and cultural impacts within the design process.
Work effectively in teams and express design ideas creatively.

Rules and Requirements

Active Participation

This course is an advanced design studio course that is built upon theory put into practice. You need to be actively participating in discussions to further your own and your colleagues’ knowledge on design. Your participation in the class is counted towards the Participation grading criteria.

Personal Computers and Note Takings

You need to bring your personal computers (PCs) on every sessions regardless of the content of the lecture. Please check that you also have your charger and a mouse. While it is possible to use trackpads of your laptops, mouse is a better instrument for design application usage.

You are also required to have something to take notes with. You can use your PCs, sketchbooks, notebooks, or papers. If you are going to use your PCs, we highly recommend Notion.

Being Late

Arrivals after 9:20 will be counted as absent for 1 hour.