Strategic Design

This course focuses on how design can be strategically applied to identify potentials and opportunities within technologies and services, business areas, industries, and sectors.
The course is grounded in identifying weak trends in contemporary society that have the potential to become dominant over a 5–10-year horizon. Through data analysis, exploratory scena

The student will have:
• knowledge of exploratory, critical, and speculative design
• knowledge of strategic foresight and futures design
• understanding about and can reflect on weak and strong trends to identify potentials and opportunities in technologies and services, business areas, industries, and sectors The student will be able to:
• apply methods, materials, and tools and master skills related to:
o Evaluating practical and theoretical challenges, justifying and selecting relevant solutions
o Communicating forecasts that businesses can use for strategic navigation student will be able to:
• manage complex and development-oriented situations in the context of futures design
• independently participate in professional and interdisciplinary collaboration related to futures design, scenario development, forecasting, and strategic foresight