Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Master InterMedia
Type of degree:FH Master´s Degree Programme
 Part-time
 Winter Semester 2024
  

Course unit titleResearch Seminar 3
Course unit code025322233014
Language of instructionGerman
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2024
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2024
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)Second Cycle (Master)
Number of ECTS credits allocated4
Name of lecturer(s)Guido KEMPTER
Oskar MÜLLER


Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course content

In the discussion, the students question the feasibility and relevance of their project against the background of emerging technologies, such as:

  • Miniaturization, Nanotechnology, Nanobots
  • Biotechnology, network nature, bioinformatics
  • Infrastructure and Services - Nursing and Health: Pain Visualization, Palliative Care, Psychotechnology, etc.
  •  Internet of Things, "Touchable Things"
  • Digitization in the humanities and natural sciences
  • Research methods that rely on the epistemic power of design
  •  Smart cities
  • Post- and Transhumanism.
Learning outcomes

As part of the implementation of their project, students are able to understand, view, compare and evaluate current questions of design research and to evaluate the relevance of their project on the basis of current technological, social and political developments.

They know current topics, in connection with which new design tasks arise for different scenarios and target groups, roughly the current practice and can keep up to date with the trends.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures, presentations, discussions

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentation

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading
  • Sprenger, Florian; Engemann, Christoph (2015): Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Küppers, E.W. Udo (2015): Systemische Bionik. Impulse für eine nachhaltige gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg.
  • Hörl, Erich (Hg.) (2011): Die technologische Bedingung. Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
  • Blessing, Lucienne T.M., Chakrabarti, Amaresh (2009): DRM, a Design Research Methodology. London, New York: Springer.
  • Emmison, Michael; Smith, Philip (2004): Researching the Visual: Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry. London: Sage Publications.
  • Koskinnen, Ilpo u.A. (2011): Design Research Through Practice. From the Lab, Field, and Showroom. Amsterdam u.A.: Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Wendler, Reinhard (2013): Das Modell zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. München: Fink.
  • Breidotti, Rosi (2014): Posthumanismus: Leben jenseits des Menschen. Frankfurt, New York: Campus.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face course with compulsory attendance

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