Service Design for a Social City

About

We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school on ‘social innovation and human centered design in the city context’. Product, service and system designers (from local and international agencies), social innovators, academic researchers, and multiple other experts from (non-)profit organizations and governmental institutions will guide you through this summer school on social city design. You will be thinking and doing on the following subjects, from different perspectives:
- Superdiversity in the city
- Interactive storytelling in the city context
- Citizen driven design
- Social care, social city?
- Creative democracy
- Human centered design and city challenges​
Ready for this service design challenge?

Course leader

Ivo Dewit

Target group

- Master students in Product Development
- Professionals working in the field of Social Design
- Professionals involved in the organization, design and development of cities (public actors, academics, industry players, civil society, media and culture)
- Service Design Network (SDN) members.

Depending on the profile, Master students from Social sciences, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Phd students with affinity to the subject.

Course aim

Students can define a innovative product/service idea based on research output and a clear design vision and can translate this concept into a concrete product/service solution, taking human centred, technical aspects and economic conditions into account.
Students can independently define, manage and adjust a coherent development plan based on an integrated design methodology and adjust, and thereby justify the decisions made during the design process.
Students can position their work in relation to the current international trends in product/service design and creatively combine knowledge and expertise from the three accompanying fields - economic, human and technological - and apply during the different phases of the design.
Students can lead or collaborate in a multidisciplinary / international team - taking up a specific role - and execute and supervise creative techniques (diverging and problem solving).
Students can visualize the design and design process in various professional situations and communicate to all stakeholders.

Fee info

The tuition fee includes course material, coffee breaks, one group dinner and social activities. It does not include lunch, accommodation or travel costs.