MAPD5000 Technology and Design Course description

This course introduces students to several methods and approaches for systems oriented design analysis and development for complex settings. The complexity relates to social/political, environmental, economic, management, and technological contexts in which the designer as well as products and service that they create, will perform and influence. One of the major methods in this course is GIGA-mapping, which builds on cooperation among students and clients, with lay-people, professionals, stakeholders, and researchers from other disciplines (intra- and inter disciplinary). GIGA-mapping involves the visualization of data in order to accumulate, communicate, and analyse data to understand and create products and services within complex strategic systems and structures.

Admission to the Master's programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has achieved in-depth knowledge of:

• using design theory and methods concerning co-design to implement new coming technologies.
• handling transdisciplinary processes in order to utilize new coming technologies for user experiences, products and services for health
• analyze market viability of products and services concepts for implemention of new coming technologies

Skills

The student is capable of:

• facilitate and run multidisciplinary design projects within the area of technology and design
• link various fields of technology to health promoting innovation
• link theory and methods attained in the master specialization, to health promoting technology and design

General competence

The student can:

• discuss ethical sides of technology on an advanced level
• implement technology in new health contexts

• reading and workshops that handle the relationships between design, innovation, research and technology
• contemporary technologies
• discussions concerning ethical situations that emerge by the application of technologies as part of design
• engagement and user experience facilitated by technology products and services
• methods that comprise innovation and contemporary technologies for health

Combination of lectures, workshops and teamwork. Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) approaches can be used in this course.

Combination of theory and practice (activities related to topic-matter).

The course includes presentations by student groups.

The most important teaching and learning methods for this course are: workshops, group work, lectures, discussions (conversation theory based), studio courses and tutoring

The evaluation is based on two parts, each contributing 50 % of the final grade:

1) Written assignment: As part of the turn in, the students student will turn in text individually or in groups, that discusses ethical views about design and technology for health

2) Group work presentations of self-initiated work based on the curriculum

Both examination 1. And 2. must be passed in the same semester in order to pass the course

Part 1) The exam result can be appealed.

Part 2) The exam result cannot be appealed.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• One note of reflection. Max 1000 words.
• One group assignment and peer-group presentation. Various number of depending on collaborating partners etc.
• workshop documentation

Individual or group portfolio examination. The portfolio consists of

• One gigamap / systems mapping.

The examination result can be appealed.

Part 1) One internal examiner.

Part 2) Two internal examiners. External examiners are used regurlarly.