Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1) Illustrate users, use, concepts, contexts and their relationships to support human centred and collaborative design process. 2) Create design artefacts to invite stakeholders, stage collaboration, frame design opportunity, justify solutions and persuade audience.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 09.09.2022 - 14.10.2022

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 and collaborative design 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 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 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:

    50% project portfolio: content, presentation, reflection + 50% peer evaluation: attendance, contribution, timeliness, quality, peer support

Workload
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    3 ects ≈ 81h:

    25h contact teaching including briefing, workshopping, lectures, review sessions

    45h team assignments

    10h personal learning reflections

    1h course evaluation

DETAILS

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Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language : English

    Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn I
    2023-2024 Autumn I

    Enrollment :

    Registration for Courses in Sisu. Min. 5, max 50 students. Priority order 1) Compulsory for Collaborative and Industrial Design major students 2) USchool minor students in the order of enrollment.

    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-at-aalto-arts