LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
illustrate users, use, concepts, contexts and their relationships to support human centred design process.
focus and adjust the angle of scrutiny by choosing and designing appropriate representations.
create design artefacts to invite stakeholders, stage collaboration, frame design opportunity, justify solutions and persuade audience.
Credits: 5
Schedule: 14.09.2021 - 22.10.2021
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Turkka Keinonen
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course addresses visual and narrative approaches to human-centred design to illustrate users, use, concepts and contexts for reflective design, collaboration, evaluation and persuasion purposes. The course gives students skills in illustrating and explicating different aspects of products and the use of products and services by visual and narrative means. The students learn to choose, compose and apply design artefacts for different communication purposes that are necessary for designing material and immaterial concepts and solutions for socio-technical systems. They learn how to create design artefacts that invite contributions and create stakeholders' commitment, material for iterating and annotating the progress of design, to adjust the angle of scrutiny by choosing appropriate representations, to clarify complex relationships and isolate critical issues, to convince their audiences and to justify their solutions, and to contextualize design concepts. They learn how to use visual media to support oral communication and how to create self-standing presentations with media such as drawings, photos, videos, interactive demonstrations, physical props or mock-ups.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
project portfolio: content, presentation, reflection
peer evaluation: attendance, contribution, timeliness, quality, peer support
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
5 ects, 135 h
Contact teaching consisting of briefing sessions, workshops, excursions, and tutoring: 35h ( 12 x 3h)
Weekly team assignments: 60h
Project portfolio 20h
Personal reflection 20h
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Will be announced in the beginning of the course. Available through MyCourses
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
10 Reduced Inequality
12 Responsible Production and Consumption
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Max 50 students. Priority to Collaborative and Industrial Design students in the order of enrollment and USchool minor students in the order of enrollment.
Teaching Period:
2020-2021 Autumn I
2021-2022 Autumn I
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=MUO-E3025
Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts
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- Teacher: Keinonen Turkka