Abstract
Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship is a unique master’s program in Denmark, representing a close collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and The Royal Danish Academy. The program brings together students, researchers, and practitioners from three disciplines: design, architecture, and business. The goal is to educate graduates with a T-shaped skill set. For design and architecture students, this means gaining business and organizational understanding, as well as learning to work in interdisciplinary teams. The program is highly problem-oriented and is based on the underlying assumption that questions of sustainability are often of such complex nature that they require a combination of multiple types of knowledge to come up with relevant design solutions. This poster-based presentation introduces the structure, learning objectives, examples from students’ work, didactic models, and the development of the master’s program over the last three years. We present our preliminary empirical research with a focus on design didactics. Both presenters have profound knowledge of the program, serving as the program director and a former design student, respectively. The presentation showcases and discusses our preliminary findings regarding the program’s strengths, inherent challenges, and potentials. With this study, we share knowledge and contribute to a discussion about design education and design pedagogy in a world that we believe needs designers’ contributions to achieve greater sustainability.
Presenters
Camilla Hedegaard MøllerAssociate Professor, Head of Programme, Institute of Architecture and Design, Royal Danish Academy, Denmark Aroop Ratan Guha
PhD Fellow, Institute of Architecture and Design, The Royal Danish Academy, Denmark
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KEYWORDS
DESIGN DIDACTICS, DESIGN EDUCATION, STRATEGIC DESIGN, INTERDISCIPLINARITY, DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
