Semester 1
Studio 1. Exploring the design challenges around products and goods.
Codesign, tools and approaches. How to plan and facilitate creative work together with stakeholders.
Design – Strategy and Management. How design can be utilised as a strategic and management tool.
Track course. Pick one of the following:
Contemporary perspectives on value creation. Studying sharing, commons and other approaches to value.
Sustainable strategies. Different perspectives on sustainability, and how they translate to design.
Advanced visualisation design. Building design capabilities in data visualisation, visual storytelling and more.
Semester 2
Studio 2. Interdisciplinary work on challenges in service systems, including policy and resource integration.
Norm-creative perspectives on design, power and change. How intersectionality, decolonialism and posthumanism relate to design.
Track course. Pick one of the following:
Thinking with representations. Tools and methods for thinking in design and thinking through design.
Design for sustainable everyday life. Design strategies to impact everyday behavior, habits and activities.
Augmented information spaces. Beyond print and screens towards designing hybrids of the physical and the virtual.
Elective. Choose from courses in engineering, social science and design.
Semester 3
Studio 3: Sociotechnical intervention. Working with external stakeholders to initiate change in society.
Design research methodology. Understanding how design practice can be part of academic knowledge production.
Track course. Pick one of the following:
Transformation for design. Understanding design as organisational change and knowledge integration.
Disruptive technologies. The role of technological leaps in transforming society for better or worse.
Immersive information spaces. Designing sensory immersion for experience, learning and more.
Elective. Choose from courses in engineering, social science and design.
Semester 4
Master thesis project. A semester-long design project on a topic of your choice; an opportunity to learn, explore and specialise.