Consortium

Network

The project involves four universities from various European regions and thus introduces the transnational dimension into the project. This project addresses countries – Finland, Austria, Netherlands and Serbia, and the thematic area of 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.
Avans University of Applied Science
Netherlands
The University of Applied Sciences
Upper Austria, Austria
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Architecture, Serbia
LAB University of Applied Sciences
Finland

You can´t do co-design without doing user research first. User-driven design is different from user-centered design. User-centered design focused on testing something. User driven design goes to the user in the first place and gathers information.

LAB UAS

Information Design means getting rid of the disturbing facts and only showing the most meaningful facts. Also making links between things. If it is done visually, it is easier to understand.

LAB UAS

We can´t expect to change a complex system. We can identify a casual loop within the system, test something there and then see how it changes the whole complex system.

LAB UAS

Systems Thinking Perspective is not about reducing complexity, it´s about making it visible!

LAB UAS

LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Coordinator

LAB is a higher education institution focusing on innovation, business, and industry. It operates in Lahti and Lappeenranta and provides education also online. LAB’s applied research activities aim at finding, developing, and producing new and improved products, production systems, methods, and services. The focus areas are integrated into teaching, learning and the organisational philosophy.

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Katariina Mäenpää

Project manager

Milla Mäkinen

Reseacher

Petri Suni

Researcher

Noora Nylander

Researcher

When you break it down, all important social, climate policy and technological decisions are in the end about human existence, about individual lives.

UAS Upper Austria

Agile methods are by definition part of the design process!

UAS Upper Austria

The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria

Partner

FH Upper Austria is the largest university of applied sciences in Austria in terms of research, at the institution research centers at each school coordinate research activities in the according fields. The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria was founded in 1994 with the School of Engineering being the largest school and and focusing on Engineering, Engineering Management as well as Energy and Life Sciences.

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Dr. Markus Kretschmer

Researcher

Dr. Markus Kretschmer

Researcher

Kristiana Roth

Researcher

Daniel Gotthardt

Researcher

We address the issue of sustainability very broadly. We address issues in the environment (both natural and built) and the relationship with the user

University Belgrade

University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture, Serbia

Partner

The University of Belgrade is the oldest university in Serbia (1808-) and the largest in the Southeast Europe (31 Faculties, 11 Research Institutes, 13 University Centers, Computer Center, University Library, 350+ study programs, and 100.000+ students).

The Faculty of Architecture (1948-) has more than 1300 students, 150 teaching staff and 30 independent researchers, and as such presents a vibrant place which pulses with a variety of on-site and off-site events that engage not only a vast number of students and teaching staff, but local and international partners and audience as well.

UBFA offers studies in Architecture and Urbanism under the national accreditation of Faculty’s programmes, diploma equivalent to a French national diploma in architecture and validated Course Status for RIBA Part 1 and 2.

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Vladimir Lojanica

Project Leader for UB-FA, Full Professor, Dean

Vesna Cagić Milošević

Full Professor, Head of the Departmant for Architecture

Jelena Ristić Trajković

Scientific Coordinator for UB-FA, Associate Professor

Verica Krstić

Project manager for dissemination for UB-FA, Assistant Professor

Aleksandra Milovanović

Project manager for Quality Control, Research Assistant

Igor Rajković

Associate Professor, Master Study Programme in Interior Arch. Director

Ivana Rakonjac

Associate Professor

Pavle Stamenović

Assistant Professor

Miloš Komlenić

Assistant Professor

Ana Zorić

Teaching Assistant

The most important thing is the competence to switch between levels, to think in different layers of complexity.

UAS Avans

Students have to know what the environmental impacts of their design is.

UAS Avans

Avans University of Applied Science, Netherlands

Partner

Avans University of Applied Science provides education for some 30,000 students located at three cities (Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg) in the South of the Netherlands. Education is provided by 3000 staff members working in 14 academies that focus on eight different sectors: Technology, Economics and Management, ICT, Health, Wellbeing, Arts and Design, Lecturer Education and Law. In eight consecutive years Avans has been placed at the top of the national UAS guide as the best large University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

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Michiel Smits

Researcher

Wil Mertens

Researcher

Fenna Rooijakkers

Researcher

Julia Moore

Researcher

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