We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school on ‘social innovation and human centered design in the city context’. Product, service and system designers (from local and international agencies), social innovators, academic researchers, and multiple other experts from (non-)profit organizations and governmental institutions will guide you through this summer school on social city design. You will be thinking and doing on the following subjects, from different perspectives:
- Superdiversity in the city
- Interactive storytelling in the city context
- Citizen driven design
- Social care, social city?
- Creative democracy
- Human centered design and city challenges
Ready for this service design challenge?
Team
Principal Research Fellow Strategic Design | Product-Service Systems
University of Antwerp | Fac. of Design Sciences | Dept. of Product Development
Co-founder Service Design Network Belgium
In collaboration with Stadsform.
Target group
- Master students in Product Development; professionals working in the field of Social Design
- Professionals involved in the organization, design and development of cities (public actors, academics, industry players, civil society, media and culture)
- Service Design Network (SDN) members.
- Depending on the profile, Master students from Social sciences, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Phd students with affinity to the subject.
Participants should have at least completed 2 full years of education in a relevant field of study.
Campus
This summer school takes place at Stadscampus (Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp) of the University of Antwerp. This campus is located in the city centre.
Micro-credential and study credits (ECTS)
3 ECTS credits will be awarded upon successful completion of the program. All certificates of completion are issued as a micro-credential.
- Participants will prepare themselves for this summer school with a literature study.
- Participants have to be present during the full summer school.
- Participants will research, participate, design, present, etc. their work (different themes). There will be a form of permanent (forming) evaluation grade and curative grading at the end with a comprehensive retrospect on the summer school topics, lessons learned and how it affects their future work.
Learning outcomes
1. Students can define a innovative product/service idea based on research output and a clear design vision and can translate this concept into a concrete product/service solution, taking human centred, technical aspects and economic conditions into account.
2. Students can independently define, manage and adjust a coherent development plan based on an integrated design methodology and adjust, and thereby justify the decisions made during the design process.
3. Students can position their work in relation to the current international trends in product/service design and creatively combine knowledge and expertise from the three accompanying fields - economic, human and technological - and apply during the different phases of the design.
4. Students can lead or collaborate in a multidisciplinary / international team - taking up a specific role - and execute and supervise creative techniques (diverging and problem solving).
5. Students can visualize the design and design process in various professional situations and communicate to all stakeholders.