Transition Design

Recommended Prerequisites

Completed first year on the master.

Teaching Methods

Semminar classes with:

a) theoretical presentation and discussion of readings and design cases in socio-technical ecosystems;

b) field research exercises, problema-context mapping and design of sustainable intervention proposals.

Assessment based on essays and projects: Synthesis of autonomous research or Exam 50%, Project work 50%.

Learning Outcomes

This unit promotes the understanding of the practice of interactive media design and interaction design as instruments of sociotechnical intervention, with the aim to reach for change that can translate social innovation goals. With it we peopose to empower the students for the practice of sustainable design (or design for sustainability) in social and tecnical ecosystems, by understanding the systemic role of diverse actor-networks at the level of technologies, Human and social relationships. The student will come to understand the role of design research methods in the process of intervention, and the theoretical frameworks to aid the understanding of intervention contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Research Methods in, Design for Social Innovation and organizational transformation

2. Theoretical frameworks for understanding sociotechnical design contexts

3. Sociotechnical ecosystems and wicked problem context mapping

4. Perspective modelling: multi-stage, multi-actor, beliefs&affects, needs&satisfiers

5. Sistemic change problems and complexity strategies

6. Designing for sustainability and the question of valueing interventions

7. The Context Engineering Methodological Framework.

Head Lecturer(s)

Licínio Gomes Roque

Assessment Methods

Assessment 1
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Assessment 2
Research work: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Irwin et al. Transition Design, an Educational Framework

Irwin. Living Systems Theory & Design

Kossoff et al. The Importance of Everyday Life

Kossoff. Holism and Reconstitution of EDL

Tonkinwise. Design for Transition

Rotmans et al. Conceptual Framework for Transitions

Coyne. Wicked Problems Revisited

Geels 2005 The Dynamics of Transitions in Socio-technical Systems

Buchanan_2001_Design_research_new_learning

Cipolla & Manzini. Relational Services

Manzini. Design When Everyone Designs

Manzini. Resilient-systems-and-cosmopolitan-localism

Meadows. Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System

Max-Neef, Human Scale Development (Needs&Satisfiers)

Papanek. Best Designers in World

Alexander. Synthesis of Form

Porritt. The World We Made

Buchanan et al (eds). The Idea of Design

Latour. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to ANT

Roque. Contribuições para uma Engenharia do Contexto

Lazar et al. Research Methods in HCI

Suchman. Human-machine Reconfigurations