Summer Course

 

BA & MA Summer Service Design Project Course - 5 ECTS*  

 

 

This is a multidisciplinary course, which is bringing together BA and MA students and it will be run for the first time in summer of 2017. The course aims to critically examine current transportation paradigms and with adopting more “experimental” service design tools unfolding possibilities for the future mobility services in Finland and worldwide. Examination of the topic is done through working on the practical project related to mobility in Otaniemi, background reading on the topic, analysing relevant existing examples of the services and site visits.

 

 

Practical projects are framed but not defined; students have to developed brief during the process adopting double diamond design process. The course starts with understanding the bigger systemic picture and context, and before zooming in the services itself and finally user. At the beginning, systemic and service design tools like three horizons, service ecology, actors/stakeholders map are used to study future mobility trends and to analyse and visualise this super wicked problem in the realm of new futures. Then, students via mobility/walkability/reachability connected micro experiments provision future-oriented services, which are targeting students, researchers and residents in Otaniemi Campus. Thirdly, students investigate individual users needs by adopting travelling diaries, contextual explorations and co-design sessions for developing new service design solutions. Finally, to explore future provocative mobility scenarios provotypes, design interventions and prototyping in SINCO lab are utilised.  

 

 

• to learn to work in a group setting with multidisciplinary background students and with various experiences

• to be able to utilise service and systemic design knowledge at the practical project

• to develop skills of analysing current mobility service in terms of human centricity and to be able to present case reading sessions materials

• to apply experimental service design methods (e.g. provotyping, design interventions design fiction) and traditional ones like paper prototyping

• to gain the skills of reflect on their own learning practices

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Report from the course titled MaaS - Increasing the Freedom of Choice in Transportation, Case Otaniemi Campus

 

 

 

* The framework for this course was developed by Irma Savolainen, Decirée Bruce, Tuomas Jussila, Lauri Rinkinen, Eero Pehkonen at the BA Service Design Project Course in spring 2017.