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System Engagements in Service and Design Research2021HT
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Course plan
Description
In design and service research a lot of research is done either on or in a
system, often viewed as a socio-material system or a socio-ecological system.
Some research participate in transformation processes of such systems,
pro-actively or more at a distance. This is what we call "system engagements",
and the course focus on how research can be done in such settings.
Participants are expected to run a system engagement with resaearch ambition,
as part of the course.
Goals and outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify, describe, and discuss various phenomena related to system thinking
- analyze the relationship between engagement, transformation and transition
- plan and perform research through engagement with a system as research
context
- orally and in writing critically review and reflexively relate to different
kinds of system engagements in research
Recommended for
PhD students in subject areas where empirical work is performed in socio-material or socio-ecological systems, such as design, service research, cognitive science, and others.
Participation
The course is open for participation of PhD students from within and outside Linköping University. As the joint course events will be run daytime CEST, this may limit possibilites for participation.
Structure and overall content
The course consists of a set of seminars introducing systems thinking,
supporting field engagements of various kinds, formalizing research through
engagements, and communicating in and from research.
Each participant needs to have a research topic, or project, that is related to
a socio-material or socio-ecological system, that can serve as the reflexive
basis, and serve as a possibility to plan and perform engagements with.
Organisation
The course will be run through LiU, in collaboration with researchers from Arkitektur & Designhögskolan i Oslo (AHO), Örebro University, and Centrum för Tjänsteforskning (CTF) at Karlstad University, with guests from an international network of researchers.
Examination
3 credits, participation in seminars
2 credits, planning system engagement
4 credits, system engagement
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