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Interaction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year)

In this course we will explore how design can intervene in everyday situations as a way to address and provide responses to eco-social challenges (eg. climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality and injustice). One focus will be on the extended social that includes other-than humans as subjects. This move away from “human-centredness”, and separation between humans and nature, have occurred in design in recent years, but also in the natural sciences. Another focus will be on design as future making and the increasing need of developing visions and scenarios of more just and sustainable worlds.

Theoretical discussions in the course point to emerging worldviews in which humans recognize the intrinsic value of all living beings and take the role of carers and stewards. This course will address this development and explore how to design in service of others, humans and more than humans alike, and strive for regenerative futures in which humans and more than humans are part of healthy living systems. Situated in the everyday, here-and-now experience of societies and diverse ecologies, it will in exploratory modes bring worldviews, histories, and futures into conversation. Work will be practical, collaborative, and focused on participatory design that investigates change towards futures that cares for the wellbeing of all living beings and in that way are more socially and ecologically just and sustainable.

The course will be inspired by the year’s theme and chosen stakeholder involvement. There will be a theory strand to support applied learning, responsive to the issues emerging on the course.

Theoretical stream (5 credits): in a series of lectures and seminars, design-oriented theory and theory concerning
the year’s chosen theme will be explored and critically reflected upon. It will be examined in a final theory seminar.

Practical stream (10 credits): in a series of lectures and workshops participatory methods and approaches will be
introduced. The main task will be to in a group of students together with one or more stakeholders codesign responses to a societal challenge. The final delivery will be a proposed possible future that addresses the wellbeing of humans and more than humans alike.

Syllabus - here you can also find course literature

Earlier syllabuses

Syllabus with literature list autumn 2026

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