The course takes Service Design as its point of departure and seeks to develop students’ capabilities and criticality when it comes to interaction design at large, including:

In this course, we will critically reflect on our position and behaviour as interaction designers in and across diverse communities. We will plan, adapt, perform, and critically examine methodologies for engaging with others in challenging situations.

The scope includes design methodology as well as the designed artifacts themselves, drawing on de-colonising and feminist approaches. Practically, a design project with external stakeholders serves as a foundation for learning activities.

After completing the course, students will be able to:

Seminars, reflective journaling, readings, peer-review, oral presentation and design work

Special circumstances apply to courses with production assignments as the assessment is dependent on the student participating in specific projects during given time periods. Opportunity for re-examination is given in accordance with applicable rights, but the specific task may be adapted as it cannot be performed in the same way as in the ordinary examination.

Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. Duke University Press.

Papanek, V. (2005). Design for the real world. Human Ecology and Social Change (2nd edition) New York: Pantheorn Books.

Sengers, P., Boehner, K., David, S., & Kaye, J. J. (2005, August). 'Reflective design'. In: Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing: between sense and sensibility. (pp. 49-58). ACM Press.

Additional literature, not exceeding 100 pages, will be introduced according to contemporary research and the project.

The university provides all students who are participating in, or have completed, a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation which is organized at the end of the course. The university will collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by them. The results shall be made available to the students. (HF 1:14).

When a course is no longer given, or the contents have been radically changed, the student has the right to re-take the examination, which will be given twice during a one year period, according to the syllabus which was valid at the time of registration.

This is an English version of a Swedish syllabus.