Designing with care

DESN613

Points:

15

Level:

6

Learning Hours:

150

Start Dates:

2024

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Content

Explore different perspectives and ways of thinking to challenge existing assumptions. Course content will introduce how empathy can be used as a strategy for playful, curious and meaningful design in health collaborations. Awareness is developed and supported to consider how ‘evidence’ is used in different contexts and how to communicate the value of design to divergent communities.

Learning Outcomes

1. Investigate and evaluate a range of design for health concepts, ideas and their practicalapplication.

2. Engage with analytical and critical methods to evaluate and synthesise practice.

3. Contribute to a community of practice, founded on the principles and practices of mātauranga Māori, of manaakitanga (care), motuhaketanga (self-determination) and kōrero pono (speaking truthfully).

4. Engage and apply a range of appropriate technologies or processes for the Design for Health minor.

Designing with care

Content

Explore different perspectives and ways of thinking to challenge existing assumptions. Course content will introduce how empathy can be used as a strategy for playful, curious and meaningful design in health collaborations. Awareness is developed and supported to consider how ‘evidence’ is used in different contexts and how to communicate the value of design to divergent communities.

Learning Outcomes

1. Investigate and evaluate a range of design for health concepts, ideas and their practicalapplication.

2. Engage with analytical and critical methods to evaluate and synthesise practice.

3. Contribute to a community of practice, founded on the principles and practices of mātauranga Māori, of manaakitanga (care), motuhaketanga (self-determination) and kōrero pono (speaking truthfully).

4. Engage and apply a range of appropriate technologies or processes for the Design for Health minor.

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DESN613

Points:

15

Level:

6

Learning Hours:

150

Start Dates:

2024

Click for link to course descriptor