Argomenti dell'insegnamento
- Mapping professional experiences, skills and strengths - Exploring values, motivations and conditions for living and working - Self-understanding and articulating one’s own contribution - Challenges, fears and doubts related to transformative work - Cooperation, support structures and different models of working - Imagining probable, possible and preferable futures - Different roles and work models for eco-social designers - Organisational formats for economically viable transformative work - Alternative models of livelihood creation and mixed work economies - Developing an individual approach to transformative practice - Exploring contacts, formats, sectors, alliances, funding, paid roles and experiments - Developing a personal roadmap, milestones and meaningful next steps

Insegnamenti propedeutici
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Modalità di insegnamento
Balanced mix of: • concise inputs providing concepts, concrete tools and examples • self-reflective individual work • exchange in pairs or small groups • collaborative group work • plenary discussion • visual and analogue methods, including writing, sketching, mapping and collaging • work with concrete materials such as canvases, templates and guiding questions • check-in and check-out rounds • short energizer exercises • short presentations and peer feedback

Obiettivi formativi
Knowledge and understanding Students of the Master in Eco-social Design will have developed their own individual project practice and will be able to: - design, implement and manage projects - initiate, carry out and lead project-oriented research, development and design activities - involve stakeholders and actors in projects, identify their needs, conflicts and potentials and work productively with them - working with different experts, companies, organisations, groups and people Applying knowledge and understanding Students will be able to develop projects and practices suitable for addressing complex challenges. Making judgements Students will be able to take responsibility for the development and management of projects and activities. Communication skills Students will be able to: - communicate convincingly in different ways and with different audiences - present projects convincingly - argue creative and strategic decisions - show how the social, ecological and economic aspects of sustainability interact in their projects - organising and/or moderating discussions and creative processes among project stakeholders - communicate productively within the team - lead creative processes and teams Learning skills Students will be able to working independently to learn according to different situations and in a personal way through experimentation and planning.

Obiettivi formativi e risultati di apprendimento (ulteriori info.)
Students will be able to: • Reflect on their professional path and identify experiences, skills and strengths that have shaped them • Identify which skills and strengths create value for other people, organisations or communities and which they would like to build a professional practice around • Identify their values and motivations and articulate the contribution they want to make • Reflect on the conditions in which they would like to live and work, including relevant people, places, activities, resources and income structures • Identify individual and shared challenges related to transformative work and reflect on which they can influence and where they need support, collaboration or another model of working • Imagine and articulate different probable, possible and preferable futures for their professional practice • Reflect on how imagined futures can be materially and organisationally sustained • Recognise different paths, roles and organisational formats through which eco-social transformation can become economically viable • Develop a visual and personal articulation of their own approach as emerging eco-social designers • Use exchange with fellow students and the teacher to further develop their thinking • Translate their emerging approach into a concrete roadmap, first milestones and meaningful next steps

Modalità d'esame
Students are required to give a short oral/visual presentation of their own emerging approach as eco-social designers. Drawing on the exercises and materials developed throughout the seminar, students bring together their experiences and skills, values and motivations, desired working conditions, and possible professional contexts. They articulate the contribution they want to make and reflect on how their transformative practice could be materially and organisationally sustained. The presentation includes a visual and personal articulation of their individual approach as well as a concrete roadmap with first milestones and immediate next steps. The goal is to help students gain a clearer sense of direction and identify concrete steps that can help them move from reflection into action.

Criteri di valutazione
• Degree of self-reflection, self-positioning and self-understanding • Ability to connect experiences, skills, values, motivations and desired working conditions • Reflection on challenges and on the material and organisational conditions of transformative work • Coherence of the developed individual approach • Creativity and imaginative power in exploring possible and preferable futures • Comprehensibility and accessibility of the presented work • Ability to translate reflection into a concrete roadmap, milestones and meaningful next steps

Bibliografia obbligatoria

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Bibliografia facoltativa

Bucay, Jorge. Drei Fragen: Wer bin ich? Wohin gehe ich? Und mit wem? S. Fischer, 2011. [German]

¿ Self, direction & relationships

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press, 2020.

¿ Power, Participation, Community-led design

Fezer, Jesko; Studio Experimentelles Design; Banz, Claudia. How Do We (Want to) Work (Together) As (Socially Engaged) Designers (Students and Neighbours) (in Neoliberal Times)?: Public Design Support / Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung 2016–2021. Sternberg Press, 2022.

¿ Collaboration, Support structures & Ways of working

hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow, 2000.

¿ Care, relationships & community

Krznaric, Roman. How to Find Fulfilling Work. Macmillan, 2012.

¿ Meaningful work & personal orientation

Lorusso, S. Entreprecariat. Onomatopee, 2019.¿ Precarity & entrepreneurial pressure

Miller, Ethan. Reimagining Livelihoods — Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

¿ Livelihood & viability

Place, Alison (Ed.). Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design. MIT Press, 2023.

¿ Power, Care, Feminist design practice

Wagner, Frank. The Value of Design: Wirkung und Wert von Design im 21. Jahrhundert. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2015. [German]

¿ Role, value & responsibility of design

Altre informazioni
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