FINAL SYNTHESIS LAB 1 - FINAL THESIS DESIGN

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Academic year
2021/2022
Teacher
ELEONORA TRIVELLIN
Credits
6
Didactic period
Primo Semestre
SSD
ICAR/13

Training objectives

In the Final Synthesis Laboratory the student is guided, according to his / her study plan, to the mature and complete preparation of an innovation project applicable to a specific case study of integration of products and services. The course aims to allow students to apply the skills and methodologies acquired so far in a team activity aimed at defining the early stages of design: understanding the context and defining the requirements to begin setting the design solutions that will be defined and verified in the final synthesis laboratories. The laboratory has the other objective of making them acquire critical and planning autonomy and experimenting their projects with the production and management reality.
The course integrates with the "Final Synthesis Lab 2" courses

The course will be divided into two phases:
1) in the first phase, insights will be provided on some design methodologies and approaches: Human centered design, design thinking design driven innovation, co-design, participatory-design. At the same time, the issues of sustainability as a whole, not only environmental but also social, cultural, economic and administrative, will be studied in depth. Some research works developed within the academic environment will then be presented.
2) in the second phase the students will be confronted with a competition theme that they will decline according to their chosen orientation for the "Final Synthesis Lab 2" course where they will elaborate the thesis project. Students will work in teams according to the orientation chosen for the thesis project.

The main skills acquired will be:
- Project methodologies
- Methods and techniques for working in a multidisciplinary team.
- System analysis.
- Product definition methodologies and techniques.
- Project management methodologies and techniques.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites.

Course programme


The course includes 60 hours of teaching, intended for frontal theoretical lessons (20 hours) and team work for the analysis and development of the various optional themes.
Topics:
- Design methods and their interactions
- The environmental context
- the system context and the circular economy
- Stakeholders, personas, users
- Project objectives and innovation
- Elaboration of a project on a tender which has as its topic innovation-environment-utilities

Didactic methods

In the first phase of the course the teaching activity will develop through lectures, seminars and exercises with reviews held continuously by the teacher; this articulation has the purpose of operationally approaching students to the thesis themes through the application of the methods learned, with research, study and analysis carried out on direct and indirect sources.
Students will be asked to collaborate on a digital platform for the construction of shared databases.

In the second phase the students will be divided into teams corresponding to the themes of the "Final Synthesis Lab 2".
The members of each team will decline the project competition theme according to the chosen project guidelines by applying teamwork and collaborative design techniques also through the use of digital platforms and through interaction with companies and organizations that participate in the definition of project themes.
The project can be a preliminary phase to the development of the thesis project or develop independently

Learning assessment procedures

The objective of the exam is to verify the level of achievement of the previously indicated training objectives.
The exam will consist in verifying the assigned works which will in part constitute elements of the thesis project.
Each student will also be asked to present the innovation project whose clarity, completeness and originality will be evaluated by the commission.

The evaluation will therefore be composed of the work done in the classroom and the project development.

Reference texts

Giovannini Enrico, L’utopia sostenibile, Laterza, roma-Bari, 2018
Lewrick Michael, Link Patrick, Leifer Larry, Manuale di Design Thinking, Edizioni LSWR, Milano,2018.
Bonomi Aldo, Federico Dalla Puppa, Roberto Masiero, La società circolare, DeriveApprodi, Roma, 2016.
A. Osterwalder, Y. Pigneur, G. Bernarda, A. Smith: Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, John Wiley & sons, 2014.
Bistagnino Luigi, Design Sistemico, Slow Food, Bra (Cn), 2009.