Semester 2 · 96126 · Master in Eco-Social Design · 6CP · EN
Based on their interests and focus, students select courses in areas Observe, Analyse & Apply and of Make & Intervene, to which the course in Service and Policy Design belongs.
Service and Policy Design course offers a critical and creative approach to the design and development of services and policies aimed at fostering social-ecological transformation, inclusion and care. A particular focus is on the interplay between grassroots initiatives (commoning) and the public sector (institutioning).
Students will learn to analyze services and policies through the lens of eco-social design. The course combines theory, strategy and practice, for developing service-oriented solutions.
A wide spectrum of concepts and issues will be covered, for example: Policy design and governance for social-ecological transformation, multi-level governance and subsidiarity, common-public partnerships, democratisation and participation, system thinking and theory of change, transformative resilience.
Educational objectives Knowledge and understanding
Students of the Master in Eco-social Design will have developed their own individual project practice and will be able to:
- develop creative solutions and processes
- making complex problems tangible through design, visualization and storytelling
- developing prototypes or delegating their development
Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will be able to make tangible ideas, reports and projects, such as sketches, visualisations, mock-ups, models, prototypes, interventions and prototype events.
Making judgements
Students will be able to:
- take responsibility for the development and management of projects and activities
- compare and evaluate concepts, practices and projects in their various contexts
- judging independently and critically requirements, needs and potential of an environment, and of a group or community, as well as the contribution of a project to local and regional economic cycles and to increasing solidarity relations
Communication skills
Students will be able to:
- communicate convincingly in different ways and with different audiences
- present projects convincingly
Learning skills
Students will be able to working independently to learn according to different situations and in a personal way through the development of prototypes, models, mock-ups and the feedback they provide.