Design Thinking (5 cr)
Code: TE00BX15-3001
General information
- Enrollment
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10.04.2023 - 04.09.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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04.09.2023 - 08.12.2023
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Technology Industry
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 5 - 25
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering
- Teachers
- Tarmo Karhu
- Teacher in charge
- Tarmo Karhu
- Scheduling groups
- Avoimen AMK:n kiintiöpaikat. Ilmoittaudu ilman tätä pienryhmää (Size: 5 . Open UAS : 5.)
- Groups
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KMMMODDesignThinkingMOD Design Thinking
- Small groups
- Open UAS quota. Please enroll without selecting this group
- Course
- TE00BX15
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Fall semester 2023, Tuesdays and Fridays in 3-4 hour periods. Possibly teaching also on Wednesday afternoons.
During the course, design thinking is learned both in general and in relation to designing your own life.
The study consists of exercises, assignments, a work life project and active teamwork..
Design thinking is introduced through literature, internet links and guidance and reading group discussions and is applied in the service design project.
Objective
After the course student knows different definitions of design thinking and is able to apply design thinking viewpoint and some of the methods in different challenges and in multidisciplinary teams and different fields.
Content
Design thinking as a way of observing, seeing, and sensing the world.
Design thinking as methods of making sense of the complexity.
Design Thinking 5 ECTS course fits for anyone, who wishes to learn holistic human and experimental approach to be exploited in different challenges in different professional fields.
The course is structured in Introduction and in four main themes (A4DT - Approach Four Design Thinking):
1. Holistic View
2. Human View
3. Experimenting / prototyping
4. Concept Design
Each theme includes group tasks that are built on previous tasks.
Materials
Reading
Brown, T. 2019. Change by design: how design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation
VanPatter, GK, Pastor; E.; Jones, P. 2020. Rethinking Design Thinking: Making Sense of the Future That Has Already Arrived
Burnett, B. & Evans, D. 2016. Designing Your Life, How to build a well-lived, joyful life.
Raami, A. 2015. Intuition unleashed: on the application and development of intuition in the creative process.
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/15347
Raami, A. 2020. Intuitio3: Yhteys mahdottomaan ratkaisuun.
Hyppönen, H. 2020. Luomiskertomus: Matkalla luovuuden tulevaisuuteen.
Miettinen, S. (toim.) 2021: Muotoilun avaimet älykkääseen teollisuuteen ja liiketoiminnan ketterään kehittämiseen.
Teaching methods
Exercises, project work, reporting and reflections, peer learning.
International connections
Innovation pedagogy
Student workload
The scope of the course is 5 ects, which corresponds to 185h of work input (1 ects = 27h)
Assignments:
-individual exercises and reports
-team exersices
-team project