Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Illustrate users, use, concepts, contexts and their relationships to support human-centred and collaborative design process;
• Create and apply design artefacts to invite stakeholders, stage collaboration, frame a design opportunity, justify solutions and persuade an audience.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 06.09.2024 - 18.10.2024

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 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.

  Teacher in charge: 2024 Tuuli Mattelmäki, 2025 Turkka Keinonen

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  60% project portfolio: content, presentation, reflection + 40% peer evaluation: attendance, contribution, timeliness, quality, peer support

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Overall workload 3 ects ≈ 81h, including:

  • 25h contact teaching including briefing, workshopping, lectures, review sessions
  • 45h team assignments
  • 10h personal learning reflections
  • 1h course evaluation

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:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Language: English

  Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Autumn I
  2025-2026 Autumn I

  Registration:

  Registration for Courses in Sisu. Min. 5, max 50 students.

  Priority order: 1)Compulsory for Collaborative and Industrial Design major students and 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   

Description