Design Plugin Workshop
5 ECTS | 1100 € | On-site in Turku | 1-30 August 2025, contact teaching in Turku: 4-15 August 2025
Curiosity, creativity, and empathy are key elements of design, and they are very much needed in surviving and thriving in an ever-changing world.
Design Plugin Workshop offers an effective and fun way for designer-attitude, design methods, design thinking and service design. The course includes introduction lectures, workshops with hands-on team working on real challenges, and independent reflection. The lecturers and coaches are experienced design teachers.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to…
- understand the possibilities of design thinking & service design
- approach various phenomena and challenges with a designer’s attitude
- use basic design methods for different development needs, like
- gather user-information and find relevant needs from that by using design methods
- ideate, create, prototype and present alternative design/service design concepts based on found needs
Methods
Lectures, workshops, group & project work, presentations, and independent studying (reflection).
Date
1 August – 30 August. Contact teaching in Turku 4-15 August 2025. The finish of the course is completed independently (reflection).
Turku University of Applied Sciences
Mervi Vuolas: expertise in visual communication, user-centered design and service design
Hannu Parkkamäki: expertise in user-centered design, product development and prototyping
Place: Turku UAS Campus.
Pre-task 20 h, lectures, mentoring and workshops 30 h, project work in groups 50 h, reflective report/learning diary 35 h = 135 h
Will be informed before the course start.
Grading 1-5
Min. 10 students, max. 20 students.