85500 Design Futures: Creative Technologies

Description

In this subject, students enhance the creativity of their designing in the context of increasingly technology-dependent futures. Students experiment with a range of creative problem-solving techniques and learn to take more risks with lateral ways of generating design options. Through various philosophies of technology and case studies of the development, take-up and consequences of a number of technological innovations, students also gain an understanding of how technology creates, and is created by, changing cultural habits, perceptions and values. By bringing together information on creativity strategies and human-technology relations, students are able to develop alternative futures through experiments with design-orienting scenarios.

Typical availability

Autumn session, City campus