Design Methodology

Postgraduate course

Course description

Objectives and Content

This course aims to strengthen the students understanding of design methodologies and help them develop their own design process, practice, and methods. The course includes explanations of a variety of design methodologies, ways of seeing and knowing, and how those methodologies are expressed through methods and practices. ¿The students will build a plan for their research process and a make an outline of relevant methodologies relating to their project.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the subject the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge:

  • Advanced knowledge and understanding of the role of methodology in project development and as a driving force behind practice.
  • Is able to reflect on their own methods, ethics, processes, and design goals in relation to the field.

Skills:

  • Utilize skills in methodological analysis, precedent research and, impact analysis, relating to their project
  • Is able to analyze and understand their own project from a theoretical and methodological perspective.

General competence:

  • Reflect on their own design goals and how to attain them through discrete design methods
  • Is able to explain their own design positions, process, and methodology based on relevant theory, knowledge, practice, and context (through presentations on method and process).

Full-time/Part-time

Full time

ECTS Credits

10

Level of Study

Master's

Semester of Instruction

Autumn
Required Previous Knowledge
None
Access to the Course
Admission to the master's program in design.
Teaching and learning methods
  • Lectures¿
  • Discussions¿
  • Group work¿
  • presentations¿
  • Workshops¿
  • Individual assignments¿
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
  • Compoulsary assignments and announced group work.

Compulsory assignment and attendance listed above must be approved for the student to enter the exam.

Forms of Assessment

The following form of assessment are used in this course:¿

  • Digital submission: A visual and written report detailing describing student´s application of design as research, theory, and practice. Max. 5000 words.
Grading Scale
Pass / Fail
Assessment Semester
Autumn
Reading List
The syllabus will be ready by 01.07. for the autumn semester and 01.12. for the spring semester.
Course Evaluation
The subject will be evaluated every third year, according to UiB¿s quality system
Programme Committee
The program board is responsible for the academic content and structure of the study and for the quality of the study program and all subjects in the program.
Course Administrator
The Faculty of Art, Music and Design, Department of Design has the administrative responsibility for the course and the study programme.