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Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT 
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Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
 at 
TU Delft 
Overview

Understand how to partner with things to expand your research capabilities

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

56,863

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
 at 
TU Delft 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Delft University of Technology
  • 24/7 access to course material
  • Learn from world-class experts in their field
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Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
 at 
TU Delft 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For working professionals
What are the course deliverables?
  • Acquire an understanding of what a "thing" is in contemporary design practice
  • Acquire an understanding of how a thing-centered design approach contributes to expanding our human-centric view of the world and offers additional resources to human imagination and capabilities
  • Apply thing-centered tools and techniques to partner with things in the design process
  • Select and devise thing-centered tools and techniques in your own design practice
More about this course
  • This online course is aimed at practicing designers and other design and innovation professionals who are willing to experiment and move past the blind spots of human-centered design in a world in which things make things too
  • In this online course, you will have the opportunity to interact with like-minded peers from different countries and institutions and experience a mix of inspirational lectures, interviews, experimental tools and techniques, and tailored feedback that will help you develop a thing-centered approach to design for the Internet of Things
  • The expected course deliverables will range from writing a brief to sketching the design of a possible solution, and will be attuned to each participant's experience and professional practice

Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
 at 
TU Delft 
Curriculum

Week 1 : Getting started

Week 2: Expand

Week 3 : Reframe

Week 4 : Rehearse

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Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
 at 
TU Delft 
Faculty details

Elisa Giaccardi
Elisa Giaccardi is Professor and Chair of Interactive Media Design at Delft University of Technology, where she leads the Connected Everyday Lab. From pioneering work in meta-design and participatory technology to the role of the non-human in a more-than-human world, her research reflects an ongoing concern with design as a shared process of invention of reality and a fascination for the role that technology can play.
Iohanna Nicenboim
Iohanna Nicenboim is a design researcher focused on how to design for complex socio-technical systems in the connected everyday life. Her background brings together digital media with interaction and industrial design.

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Thing-Centered Design: A New Approach to Designing for the IoT
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