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16383
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
5
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| Workload |
TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Design Industrial
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Entry requirements |
N.A.
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Learning outcomes |
The proposed training in Design for Social Innovation aims to ensure that future professionals assert themselves, in their core and complementary skills, in areas such as Design for Sustainability, Social Innovation, People-Centered Design, and Social Entrepreneurship, among others.
In specific terms: Promote critical thinking about constructed reality and the quality of Human experiences within the theoretical framework of Sustainability; Understand the role of creativity and artistic design, in its multiple expressions, as a strategy for innovation, civic intervention and promotion of social well-being; Develop models of research, conceptualization or project action aimed at improving present and future social dynamics, based on the identification of technological potential (4th Industrial revolution), a starting stimulus and aiming to create solutions – products, services and/or systems – analogue, digital and/or hybrid.
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Syllabus |
Basic concepts of Design, Creativity, Social Innovation and Sustainability, Definitions and examples. Ethics and Sustainability: concentric vision of the economic, social and environmental dimensions. The role of culture. Discussion and critical reflection. Presentation, through multimedia resources, of the Sustainable Development Goals. Divergent creative group process/workshop. Design Thinking: characterization of the design process for innovation. Cases of social innovation: products – processes – systems. Integrated systemic definition. Project development. Characterization of the SDG under study and topic: sensitive issues. Project requirements and resources. Presentation and discussion of case studies and/or other teaching resources (Speculative/Divergent Design Processes). Contextualization and Storytelling. Convergent creative processes. The importance of communication and presentation. Target audiences and communicative means and solutions (integrated solution).
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Main Bibliography |
1. Amatullo, M et al (Eds) (2022). Design for Social Innovation. Case Studies from Around the World. Routledge, New York. ISBN: 9781003021360
2. Resnick, E. (Ed.) (2019). THE SOCIAL DESIGN READER. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. London.
3. Epstein, M. & Yuthas, K. (2014) Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors 1st Edition. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
4. Ferreira A.M. (2022). Design, Educação e Inovação Sustentável. Enquadramento, Desafios e Oportunidades no Contexto Europeu. 1ª Edição. CNH: Lisboa. ISBN: 978-989-53742-2-9.
5. Ferreira A.M. (2022). Contributos para um novo Projeto Formativo Europeu em Design e Inovação Sustentável. O Modelo ReACt. 1ª Edição. CNH: Lisboa. ISBN: 978-989-53742-3-6.
6. Fuad-Luke, A. (2009) Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World, Routledge.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The teaching methodology is active in nature, based on Problems (PBL), with a theoretical-practical component that enhances, on the one hand, conceptual tools and critical reflection in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. On the other, operational tools, within the methodological framework of applied research, based on Design projects.
Three phases can be distinguished: Presentation of theoretical concepts; Presentation of case studies, with consequent analysis and discussion of practices and content in this territory of investigation and action, and; Active and creative methodological practices for social innovation and sustainability. This exercise aims, among others, to map reality, promote critical reflection, define research questions appropriately framed in the personal, social and historical context or define solution strategies. These questions may become possible starting stimuli for an investigative process to be developed in the Master's degree.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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