Emerging Designs
The course will enhance students' design understanding and skills through lectures and projects, emphasizing creativity and practical application with input from industry professionals.
Severi Uusitalo
Courses: Emerging Designs and Emerging Designs II. Head of CoID
Building on an extensive background in design in the industry, Severi Uusitalo focuses on design cognition and the role of creativity in it. This includes the role of assistive technologies in design. In teaching of his courses, the focus is on building students' designerly metacognition through reflection with the help of relevant design theory. The objective is for the student to be capable of coping with the developments of the future.
Courses
From Concepts to Designs*
* RE-NAMED TO EMERGING DESIGNS II FOR CLARITY, STARTING 2024-25 STUDY YEAR
The course has a lecture and workshop series, that supports a team design projects starting from an existing design concept which then is iteratively developed to more mature design. Students will use various physical and digital models to develop and evaluate projet.
Emerging Designs II
During the course, students will apply design to build knowledge of the conceptual propositions, by performing a validation of the concept or a key feature of it.
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