Design Ecologies Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

Overview

Course Overview

The Design Ecologies program at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design is socially grounded, has ties to industry, and focuses on future practices of design, preparing students for both professional careers as well as further studies at doctoral level.

As a student, you will work to create conditions to support socially and culturally resilient communities, biodiversity, and economies operating within planetary boundaries. At our programme, we believe in designing 'with' rather than 'for' as well as developing design proposals (products, services, and systems), that can be conducive to life.

At Design Ecologies, practices are developed on artistic grounds and using ecoliteracy principles. Design ideas are explored in workshops, individually and collectively, by engaging in multisensory aesthetics that include methodological aspects and functional considerations. As a student, you will have the opportunity to challenge and deepen your own professional practice in relation to the field of design and to broaden your social and ecological networks.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the programme, you will be able to:

• work with tools and methods relevant to the field of design
• materialize proposals in multisensory ways

• work with theoretical knowledge and reflect critically through design
• work through design using ecoliteracy principles
• perform with high-level autonomy and accountability
• apply established theories to design interventions
• formulate and make coherent design proposals and present results to different audiences
• design, evaluate, implement, analyse, theorise, and disseminate research that contributes to ecoliterate practices.