Antwerp, Belgium

Social City Design

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

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.

Credits info

3 EC
3 ECTS credits will be awarded upon successful completion of the program. All certificates of completion are issued as a micro-credential.

Participants will prepare themselves for this summer school with a literature study.
Participants have to be present during the full summer school.
Participants will research, participate, design, present, etc. their work (different themes). There will be a form of permanent (forming) evaluation grade and curative grading at the end with a comprehensive retrospect on the summer school topics, lessons learned and how it affects their future work.

Fee info

EUR 250: Students

Fee includes course material, coffee breaks, one group dinner and social activities. Does not include lunch, accommodation or travel costs.
EUR 750: Professionals

Fee includes course material, coffee breaks, one group dinner and social activities. Does not include lunch, accommodation or travel costs.

SDN members: €600

Scholarships

Scholarships for University of Antwerp students