Course detail
Design for Social Change 2
FaVU-2-D-DPSZ2Acad. year: 2025/2026
The course Design for Social Change 2 builds on the course Design for Social Change 1. Students continue working on practical team projects. Emphasis is placed on prototyping and testing products and services that address complex contemporary problems and support positive social change.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Completion of Design for Social Change 1. Knowledge of the content from Methodology of the Design Process 1 and Methodology of the Design Process 2.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Active participation in solving a team project during the semester is a prerequisite for admission to the colloquial exam.
Students will receive formative verbal feedback on their project work.
The colloquium takes the form of a final presentation of outcomes from the team projects.
Aims
After completing the course, students should be able to:
- use data from their own research activities in a team project;
- gain experience with prototyping and testing in a project aimed at positive social change;
- navigate contemporary design methodologies based on approaches of speculative, critical, and transitional design, and apply them to a practical project;
- evaluate prototypes according to principles of sustainability and ethics;
- reflect on their own position as designers in relation to the addressed project;
- have an overview of opportunities for collaboration with the public and non-profit sectors.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Luňáčková, Daniela, Šárka Matoušková, and Ladislava Suchá Zbiejczuk. “Transition Design · Set of Cards,” n.d. https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/outcomes/cards.
Recommended reading
Hill, Dan. Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary. Strelka Press, 2014.
Novotný, Roman, a Martina Růžičková. „Mystery nájemník jako dynamický designový element v kontextu systémově orientovaného designu: od testera služby nájemního bydlení k asistentovi vystěhovávaných nájemníků". JOINME, č. 2/2022 (b.r.). http://joinme-muni.cz/data/articles/2022/12/30/63ae9cc993089/Mystery%20n%C3%A1jemn%C3%ADk_final%20final%20(1)-edit-biblio33-final.pdf.
Rawsthorn, Alice. Zdravím, světe: jak design vstupuje do života. Vyd. 1., Kniha Zlín, 2014.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme DES_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Methods for using data from research activities in design process
- Methods for participatory prototyping
- Contemporary design methodologies
- Ethics and reflexivity in design practice
- Opportunities for collaboration with public administration and the non-profit sector
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Working with data from own research activities
- Prototyping; applying participatory approaches
- Applying contemporary design methodologies
- Prototype testing
- Implementing test results
- Finalizing outputs from the team project