• Develop and apply methodology to plan own work and progression throughout the semester.
• Demonstrate ability to argue for methodological choices in design processes.
• Identify and involve actors such as users meaningfully, iteratively and systematically applying methodologies and theory in early stages of design processes.
• Apply critical thinking relating to design processes and how methodological choices has influenced their collaborative design processes.
• Demonstrate ability to argue for methodological choices in design processes.
• Demonstrate the ability to reflect upon and be conscious of their own skills and how to put these at play in cross-disciplinary teamwork.

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK: methods for coordinating and managing cross-disciplinary design processes based on anthropology, organisational theory.

DESIGN-ORIENTED USER STUDIES: Introducing different methods, approaches and tools to user studies including user methods and user integration, anthropology, co-design etc. User-oriented design, design research and service design will be introduced. The students will engage and communicate with different actors such as users: identified core needs and issues illustrated in the format of infographics. Through analysing, students develop a conscious approach to their own design process and the users they design for.

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN PROCESSES: Theory reviewing examples of cross-disciplinary collaboration in design processes will be included and examples reviewed and discussed. Groups will be divided according to the specific branch profiles of the design and architecture students.

Knowledge of perspectives in design research; design roles, design methods and processes. Seeing design as a process, perspectives are related to questions about tradition and the role of the architect/designer in their future practice. Knowledge of innovation and design processes are introduced and how they can be enriched and challenged. Theories and models will be applied to understand design and innovation process and how to analyse these. Subjects such as value, sustainability, circular economics, aesthetics, consumption habits and art will be integrated from various design-oriented, humanistic and social scientific approaches. 

The Students will apply theoretical models of innovation and design processes to the team's own process, discuss strengths and weaknesses, and evaluate the result.

During this course, the students analyse the collaborative design process itself, collaborating in groups investigating how the design process is organised, phases and the basis for decisionmaking. They will be reflecting on individual versus collaborative processes as well as artistic versus business considerations.