Empathy & Equity
- ECTS-point
- 15
- Education
- Master
- Focus area
- Design for People
- Term
- 1.
- Course manager
- Kathrina Dankl
- Course instructors
- Canan Akoglu, Kathrina Dankl
Description
Empathy & Equity
The course focuses on participatory design and trains you to activate design artefacts to empathically engage with people in vulnerable stages of life.
Social Design sometimes engages with people in challenging situations. People can be placed in either permanent or temporary exposed situations, which calls for new ways of solving complex and delicate issues. Therefore this course focuses on welfare design, empathy, equality, and ethics.
You will gain knowledge about regulations around user involvement such as anonymity and confidence. Knowledge and skills will be put into practice through participatory project-work within the context of care, health, and well-being.
The course considers the dynamics of individual citizens’ life course and their interaction with welfare systems. In this regard, the course explores ways to re-imagine the public sector role and co-create value with citizens.
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