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Concept And Aim

The aim of the project is to develop and validate a methodology for acquiring user-driven sustainable design, eco-design and system thinking and agile development skills and competences, which are essential in addressing society’s complex challenges, such as climate change, depletion of energy and raw materials and the aging population. These complex issues require a comprehensively reformed way of thinking, which can be achieved by educating students to flexibel, interdisciplinairy (t-shaped) professionals with the ability to change existing practices in the working life and implement their knowledge and skills in their everyday life as well.

Project Motivation

In spite of that the critical importance of user-driven design, eco-design and related systems thinking competences is already widely recognised, in most countries the educational practices are still not adequately developed. Elements may be integrated into other existing curriculum subjects or introduced separately. In each case different methodology and assessment is used. The need for an integrated, tested methodology and assessment has been encountered by the partners in their own practice and also clearly recognised from the communications with colleagues and scientific and professional literature as a need at a national and European level.

Mission

Developing an integrated methodology that can be used for teaching, monitoring and assessment of the user-driven, eco-design, systems thinking and agile development skills and competences.

Vision

Sharing expertise contributes to improved teachers’ competence and teaching practices, and strengthens the structured, sustainable cooperation between partnering HEIs in developing various types of cooperation models and in sharing educational practices.

Values

Green paradigm, Sustainability, Creativity, Innovation, problem-based design and much more.

Cooperation

This project objective promotes innovative, inter-connective practices within the teaching between the partner organizations.

Integral Methodology

The collaboratively developed, integral methodology in developing user-driven, sustainable (eco-) design and agile development, based on shared experiences and state-of the art knowledge.

Teaching Materials

Shared knowledge and teaching materials in bio-circular building materials and awareness creation on the climate change. The teaching material will include among others a MOOC on bio-circular building materials, sharing a database on biobased building materials and sharing of teaching materials and teaching practices on bio-circular economy.

Flexible And Dynamic Education

Developing of multidisciplinary education in collaboration with practitioners using agile and scrum methods. This project objective contributes to “Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices” by enhancing flexible and dynamic education. Promoting agile techniques and optimal use of virtually enhanced (blended) teaching is fitting to innovative and fast developing educational culture.

Collaborative Teaching

Best practice in virtually enabled facility sharing and development of collaborative teaching between the partners. This project objective promotes innovative, inter-connective practices within the teaching between the partner organisations and with the relevant practice as well as enhances inclusive education by provides opportunities for remote, part-time and life-long learning

USER-DRIVEN DESIGN

“Co-design in a broader sense refers to the creativity of designers and people not trained in design working together in the design development process.” (Sanders & Stappers, 2008)

SYSTEMS THINKING

“Reducing Complexity by Modeling Systems Conceptually and Identifying and Understanding Non-Linear Relationships.” (Arnold & Wade, 2015)

ECO-DESIGN

“The term eco-design is defined as the integration of environmental aspects into product design and development with the aim of reducing adverse environmental impacts throughout the whole product’s life cycle” (ISO, 2011; ISO/TR 14062, 2012)

AGILE METHODS

„Agile (…) processes is an iterative and incremental based development, where requirements are changeable according to customer needs.“ (Sharman, Sakar & Gupta, 2023)

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