UID’17 User Inspired Design making Turkka Keinonen & Luke Feast Draft 12.9.2017

UID making UID making addresses visual and narrative approaches of human-centred design to illustrate users, use, concepts and contexts for reflective design, collaboration, evaluation and persuasion purposes. Team project with weekly assignments Lectures and excursions on the topic of the assignment Team presentations, tutoring and peer tutoring Collaboration with external partner Debriefing seminar

User inspired design creates… Designers’ inspiration User involvement Reliable information Community interest

… to achieve. Strong insights Solid justification social impact Opportunity identification Strong insights Solid justification social impact

UID making topics & assignments Framing the project Invitation | Project outline and plan to collaborate Staging | Props for guiding collaborative creativity Focusing on a concept Story | Visual and verbal narratives exploring concepts Chart | Diagrammatic structure of interaction Designing the concept Image | Visual and verbal crystallization of a concept Proposal| Main characteristics and benefits of a concept

UID Contact teaching 12.9. 15.9. 19.9. 22.9. 26.9. 29.9.(?) 30.9. Intro Suburbs I Soini Invitation Keinonen Get started Keinonen Pirinen Staging Keinonen Suburbs II Soini Keinonen 26.9 pm Story Keinonen Housing Pirinen 29.9 pm Review I Keinonen Pirinen Soini Festival Pirinen Soini 3.10. 6.10. 10.10. 13.10. 17.10. 20.10. Chart Keinonen Excursion to Vahanen Soini & NN Keinonen Image Keinonen Review II Keinonen Pirinen Soini Proposal Keinonen Keinonen Pirinen Pirinen Soini Soini 27.10. Debrief

UID making deadlines Project start 15.9 - Framing & invitation Intermediate review 1 | 29.9 - Staging & story Intermediate review 2 | 13.10 – Chart & Image Debrief | 27.10 – Concept and portfolio

evaluation Portfolio 50% | team work Personal reflection 20% | individual Weekly assignments 30% | individual

Portfolio Collection of the products and processes of your learning – the six design artefacts well-designed and illustrated work – select a format that is most relevant and appropriate to your project contain a digital component that includes, at minimum, digital records of the items you selected for the four parts of the portfolio. contain a material component that provides a means to engage with your design proposal and appreciate the meaning of the portfolio items. length depends on the nature of the items included, but 20 pages or equivalent is probably needed support you to critically reflect the products and processes of your learning to select the most effective and meaningful items.

Portfolio 1. Introduction that outlines the scope of your project, the contents of the portfolio, and manner in which the reader should engage with the portfolio. 2. Six Artefacts that demonstrate your skills to illustrate and explain solutions to complex issues by visual and narrative means, and a selection of supporting materials that communicate your designerly intelligences and attitudes. 3. Designerly Intelligence that your group performed during the design project. Understanding of what you are doing and justifying why you are doing it. Show how you integrated the principles of human-centred and collaborative design into your process. Respect and empathy for people, connecting multiple viewpoints and perspectives, and aesthetics of human experience. 4. Reflection: Individually write a 1-2 page letter to a friend, real or imaginary, who is thinking of enrolling in the UID next year. reflect on the course and report on how it has affected your appreciation of the role of the designer. reflect upon your own performance throughout the course. skills, knowledge, and attitudes that you think are important for successful human-centred and collaborative design practice.

Portfolio Due 26-Oct at 09:00 a.m. Debriefing with client 27-Oct 13:00 – 16:00

UID in the HOOD

HOOD Topic of UID making assignment: HOOD – Engage residents to develop suburban neighbourhoods Collaboration: Vahanen PRO ltd. (www.vahanen.com) & Lähiöfest17 (lähiöfestivaali.fi) Key themes related human centered and collaborative design: Quality of housing & neighborhood reputation & local services Resident engagement, empowerment & democracy Multi-layered and versatile suburban cultures and structures