SPRING TERM 2010 Product semantics of ICT for development

The graduate course 'Design -use and meaning' I teach this term is a continuation of the Design course last Autumn where we worked with designer-identity and basic design skills. Product semantics is the link, and Krippendorf's work is the backbone here, although it does not cover participatory design. Nor does it address eLearning Lab's research on ICT for development - so luckily, there is room for improvement, and lots of research work to do

DESIGN TOOL APPROPRIATION

The Mobile Design Lab is part of e-Learning Lab, and it needs a make-over. This is high on my agenda this week. I plan to pack each element together with a brief description of its design-tool-potential. I consider the Mobile Design Lab a box for tools dedicated provocation, articulation and communication of conceptual ideas: we have tools for building personas, for building scenarios, and for forum theater. And we have games, designed by students over the years. All by inspiration from ITProduct design at the Mads Clausen Institute in Sonderborg, and further developed in the design workshops held by Anne Marie Kanstrup and I together with students.