This blog is part of 'Design Processes', a course for first-year MA students in Industrial Design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. 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 requires 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 experience with and knowledge of different perspectives and methods. Through trying out different perspectives and methods – material, commercial, service and critical – the goal is that we will be better able to articulate our 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.
More about the course is in "About the course" (left column).
This blog is a work-in-progress between October 14, 2013 and January 25, 2014.
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