Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Participants that successfully complete the course should be:

• Capable to identify translation and facilitation challenges of collaborative design proceses
• Able to critically discuss and apply various collaborative and participatory techniques for design, together with other members of a team
• Comfortable with designing interactive and collaborative sessions with care, effectiveness, purpose and detail

Credits: 6

Schedule: 05.09.2022 - 11.10.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Andrea Botero Cabrera

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 adopts a participatory hands-on approach that builds participants’ design competences with a specific collaborative and participatory twist. The collective learning journey includes exercies in agenda setting, translation, facilitation, method choice and managing of co-creative activities. Tecniques, methods and skills introduced are useful in coreographing design projects for creative sustainability and will help building a personal repertoire of collaborative design practices.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Active participation during lectures, exercises and group work (meassured via self reflection and peer evaluation)

  Learnind Diary = an entry per day (aprox 400 words) that incorporates reflections on the course discussions, exercises, reading materials and group work)

  Final group exercise where participants will design, organize and facilitate and interactive collaborative design event (formats can vary ranging from play session to workshop). By the end of the course each group will deliver: 1) A 3 page document presenting the concept for the session, design rationale, collaborativ approach and background assumptions 2) A detailed session plan with timetable, material lists and roles 3) invitation materials (printed and digital) 4) A max 4 page report of the pilot session

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  6 ECTS = 162 hours.

  - Contact teaching (lectures, workshops, tutoring, and presentations) 40h
  - Individual and group work (during sessions and independently) 60h
  - Learning diary (including time for own thinking) 25h
  - Preparing final group exercise 30h
  - 85% attendance

  - Feedback and peer-evaluation (includes time to fill course feedback form) 5h

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

12 Responsible Production and Consumption

17 Partnerships for the Goals

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: Sisu. Minimum 5, maximum number of participants: 30.

  The order of priority for admitting students:
  1)Creative Sustainability major students;
  2)Creative Sustainability minor students;
  3)Department of Design masters students;
  4)Students for whom the course is part of his/her major's or programme's alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year;
  5)All other master students.

  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

   

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