POSDO6100 Practice Oriented Systemic Design Course description

In this course, you will be challenged to take a role as a practice oriented systemic designer - facilitating, managing, and designing systems, service and product solutions, and strategies for implementation.

Systems and game theory provide you with methods to change and develop services, strategies, practice and thinking.

The course is a collaboration between Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and partner institutions in Europe.

None, other then the admission requirements.

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

Knowledge

The participant will attain knowledge within:

• general systems theory
• cybernetic and communication theory
• system dynamics and analysis
• game dynamics in systems
• methods for data gathering in complex settings (visual interviewing, design probes and play probes, co-design, among others)
• experimentation in systems

Skills

The participant is capable of:

• describing and identifying exceedingly complex contexts
• creating systems-maps
• performing system analyses
• utilizing methods for data gathering, sharing, cooperation, analysis, and documentation: visual interviewing, design probing, play probing, co-design, feministic design, auto-ethnographical research, mapping workshops, and analysis of relations, patterns, causality, stakeholders, systems dynamics.
• documenting findings in co-created visualizations.
• creating strategies and interventions for change in private and public sector.

General competence

The participant attains advanced competence in systemic design by:

• developing the ability to understand and handle complexity and systems thinking in design processes.
• holistic thinking and understanding of design projects in relation to sustainability and global mega trends.
• communication and cooperation by visualization.

The course consists of four weeks with workshops, tutoring sessions and independent study.

The participants will be encouraged to work with cases from their own professional working life in groups and with additional cases presented in the course.

None.

Individual or group portfolio examination.

The portfolio consists of: Systems Maps (visual map).

The examination result can be appealed.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are followed.

Grader scale: A-F

Two examiners. External examiners are used regularly.