About the course

Design Processes IDM108 2013
Industrial Design, Konstfack

In this course, students explore ways to conduct design processes. The design field is always expanding – in addition to established settings in industry, industrial designers today work in a wide range of contexts, with many experts, stakeholders and users. Such complex settings of design work may require additional perspectives and methods. In this course, we will explore different ways of thinking about and working in the expanded field of design. From a basis in material and ‘designerly’ processes, the aim is to develop students’ experience with and knowledge of different perspectives and methods. Through trying out different perspectives and methods, the goal is that students will be better able to articulate their design processes, method(s) and role(s) as designers. After the course, students should have a wider and deeper repertoire, or toolkit, of approaches to choose from when creating a relevant design process. The course unfolds as a sequence of perspective that build on one another:
• Material
• Commercial
• Service

Teacher
Ramia Mazé, ramia.maze@konstfack.se

Students
Ela Celary
Nelson Hardie
Tove Johnson
Fanny Karlsson
Jenny Markstedt
Lorenzo Polo
Anna Clara Rendahl
Maren Skyrudsmoen
Frida Åberg

Guest teachers
Jenny Althoff, Konstfack
Brendon Clark, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT
Kajsa Davidsson, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT
Mikael Lindström and personnel from Innventia
Jack Mama and Clive van Heerden, Electrolux
Others to be announced

Guest critics
Martin Avila, Konstfack
Niklas Billström, Konstfack
Magnus Lindförs, Konstfack
Bo Westerlund, Konstfack (examinor)

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