About this course
Students attend a lecture series that combines Social Theory and Design Methodologies for user-centered design.The lectures will be in English.
The following lecture topics will be covered.
Social theory:
- Social science paradigms, normative definitions of the user, practice based approaches, sustainable consumption
- Urban paradigms, smartness and smart citizenship, urban commons and commoner identities
- The sharing economy, digitalization and user practices
Design Methodologies
- User centered design
- Value sensitive design
- Participatory design
In addition to the lecture series, the students will work on a situationals project implementing user centered design methodologies to a particular urban user problem.
Learning outcomes
The general objectives of the USE-curriculum are:
- To gain knowledge about the ways that the social-, and management- sciences as well as the humanities work and think.
- To apply the acquired knowledge within at least one casus to embed relevant fields of technology in order to explore technologies relationship to society.
- To synthesize and evaluate the work (analyse, explain, model, design, critically reflect, evaluate) with a broad definition of technology (as a socio - technical system) within at least one of the USE-perspectives.
Objectives specific to the course Design for a Sustainable Future:
- To gain knowledge about the ways that the social-, and management- sciences as well as the humanities work and think.
- To apply the acquired knowledge within at least one casus to embed relevant fields of technology in order to explore technologies relationship to society.
- To synthesize and evaluate the work (analyse, explain, model, design, critically reflect, evaluate) with a broad definition of technology (as a socio - technical system) within at least one of the USE-perspectives.
Specific learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this course (7XSUA0) the student is able to:
- To gain knowledge about the ways that the social-, and management- sciences as well as the humanities work and think.
- To apply the acquired knowledge within at least one casus to embed relevant fields of technology in order to explore technologies relationship to society.
- To synthesize and evaluate the work (analyse, explain, model, design, critically reflect, evaluate) with a broad definition of technology (as a socio - technical system) within at least one of the USE-perspectives.
Prior knowledge
You must meet the following requirements
- Enrolled for a degree programme of faculty The Built Environment
- Completed all course modules listed below
- Design for a Sustainable Future (7XEUA0)
Resources
Additional information
- More infoCoursepage on website of Eindhoven University of Technology
- Contact a coordinator
- CreditsECTS 5
- Levelbachelor
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Offering(s)
These offerings are valid for students of Utrecht University