What will you learn? - Design of Services, Technology and Interaction – Master's Programme
What will you learn?
The academic content and assignments throughout the program mirror real-world settings, where designers often work in interdisciplinary teams tackling complex challenges.
The course Introduction to Design, Technology and Society allows students to enhance their skills in these central areas:
- Wicked societal problems
- Design as a problem solver
- Technology for change
Design for Change allows the students to consider design, technology, society, and sustainability in an integrated manner while further developing their individual pathways as designers.
The students' diverse academic backgrounds will highlight different approaches to wicked problems and societal complexities. These often cross disciplines and present complex challenges related to sustainability, health, social development, democracy, diversity and the introduction of technology.
The course Design for Technology in Transition explores practical methods and theories, technology dilemmas, and technology sociology, as well as participatory methods and design probes.
The focus here is on how designers can evolve as change agents, critical designers, and catalysts, tied to security, AI, inclusion and privacy issues – in addition to new challenges in the near future.
In the course In-depth Project in Research Groups students will engage with the department's research groups, where they will also conduct a research project.
Through active participation, they learn in practice how a design researcher works on a daily basis, through professional debates in research projects, applications, research production, writing, artistic development projects, teaching, and ethical and technological dilemmas.
Research Methods provides students with a course on scientific methods, in cooperation with several other NTNU master's programs, as well as a section specifically tailored to design.
In Design Management students learn how to lead and manage design and research projects. They will also plan, conduct risk assessments, and ethically evaluate their master's project.
Other courses in the program include the joint course Experts in Teamwork and two elective courses.