We are most likely to learn something if we are trying to answer questions or solve problems that we as learners regard as: important, intriguing or just beautiful. That is why the primary goal of this course is to connect your own interests, within the disciplines of design, to create new mental models that help you understand the field from various viewpoints. As an integrated design student, the more perspectives and points of view you can have within you, the more value your creative output will have. As part of this class, we will conduct mindfulness meditation exercises.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Understand and analyse theoretical material

• Become familiar with design research methods and current trends in design theory

• Develop your individual and unique capacity of articulation and creation of coherent arguments

• Learn how to communicate with clarity in an academic manner

• Engage constructively in group discussions

• Produce a creative valuable output to take with you

• Provide a theoretical foundation for your MA dissertation

We will go through the syllabus together during our first class. I am looking forward to meet all of you.

Please contact me with any questions through Incom or at:

alberto.iberbuden@hs-anhalt.de