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This Fall, in ‘semester 3’, we offer 3 electives that connect to MyFutures.

In MyFutures, TU Delft design researchers, in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhoven, care organisations, municipalities, and insurers, aim to develop Tools to support thinking about personal futures. This Fall semester we organize three ways to engage with this project in elective courses, building on what was already learned in the project, and working with us to help the project progress.

ID5663 Contextmapping Skills  is the advanced training ground to learn contextmapping with the pros. In groups, you will carry out a complete contextmapping study for a real societal partner. You will defeine the research question, scope and focus, create the materials, conduct sessions, analyse and report the results. CM Skills is taught in collaboration with Design Agency Muzus.  As with last year, the clients/partners will come from the MyFutures problem space. (6EC, Tuesdays in Q1 and Q2) <More…>

In the new electives format ID5070 Deep Dive, you will study an area of scientific and practical knowledge in-depth. This involves reading, finding literature (and in this case: design examples), and discussing these in interaction with experienced academics. This first edition’s topic Design for (?) User Biases is tied closely to MyFutures: how do people make decisions, what stands in the way, and what can be done to help them.  This course will be taught by Pieter Jan Stappers and a visiting researcher from the University of Minnesota, USA. (3EC, Wednesdays, in Q1) <More…>

Finally, if you are interested in doing an individual research project ID550X, contact us. We are interested in guiding research projects which build on and contribute to the MyFutures insights, especially about ‘making plans for personal futures). (Individual scheduling, 3, 6, or 9 EC). Questions? Contact p.j.stappers@tudelft.nl or f.sleeswijkvisser@tudelft.nl.

MyFutures is een onderzoeksproject van de TU Delft en de Design Academy Eindhoven met als onderwerp: “Tools to support thinking about personal futures”. Vanaf september 2017 hebben we plek voor 5 studenten die gaan afstuderen op de vraag:

Hoe kun je familieleden ondersteunen als zij met elkaar op de toekomst willen of moeten anticiperen?

We zoeken: Afstudeerders gaan tools ontwerpen én testen om families te ondersteunen bij het bespreken van delicate onderwerpen zoals ouder worden, onderlinge afhankelijkheid, angst, hoop en verwachtingen voor de toekomst. We zoeken daarom studenten die goed empatisch kunnen ontwerpen en het leuk vinden om dit in nauwe samenwerking met de gebruikers te doen.

We bieden: Binnen het onderwerp bieden we de ruimte om een eigen opdracht te formuleren en met een relevante externe partner samen te werken. Via ons partnernetwerk kunnen we je in contact brengen met een zorginstelling, verzekeringsmaatschappij of gemeente. Daarnaast zou het ook interessant zijn om de samenwerking te zoeken met bijvoorbeeld een notariskantoor, woningcorporatie of projectontwikkelaar. De kennis die we het afgelopen jaar hebben opgedaan uit wetenschappelijke literatuur, interviews en case studies over manieren waarop mensen met de toekomst omgaan en welke barrières zij hierbij ervaren zijn natuurlijk beschikbaar voor een goed fundament en een vliegende start van het project. Eigen ideeën en initiatief worden zeer gewaardeerd en willen we graag bespreken. Daarnaast denken we graag mee over een geschikte chair of mentor die past bij jou en bij de opdracht.

Informatielunch

Woensdag 17 mei,  12.30-13.30,  Studio Say (32B-2-060)

Interesse? Laat even weten dat je komt! Mailen kan naar e.ernst@tudelft.nl en p.j.stappers@tudelft.nl

*because these projects require fieldwork with Dutch partners, we only advertise this call in Dutch.

(We’re both happy and sorry to say the event has sold out; if you want to be considered if places come available, send a mail to the email address mentioned on the registration page)

We are all expected to take responsibility for our own health and well- being in the future but many of us are not well prepared. In the MyFutures project municipalities, insurance companies, knowledge institutions and design agencies are working together to develop tools to support people in applying design thinking to their personal future lives.

During this symposium we will share our first design research insights about how people deal with their personal futures in the domains of housing, care, finance and work.

Keynote speaker is prof. Elizabeth Sanders, who is a pioneer in involving users in the design proces. Her current focus is on bringing participatory, human-centered design thinking and co-creation practices to the challenges we face for the future.

Everyone who is interested in the challenges of thinking about the future and the possibilities of applying design thinking to personal futures is warmly invited to join us at this event. The amount of places available is limited so please register by filling in this form: http://tinyurl.com/MyFutures27Jan17

Fri. 27-01-2017

13.30-17.30

IDE Arena, TU Delft

“DRIVE is THE annual Design Research & Innovation Festival for designers, researchers, and their colleagues working in business and industry, government and the Top Sectors.”

Froukje will be presenting MyFutures at the Research Through Design program on Thursday 27th of October during the Dutch Design Week.

35 Msc Design students will be writing an academic paper on a topic that links to MyFutures. They will address questions like: How can we support everyday people at thinking about their futures?, How do we make contextmapping techniques DIY? and What are the barriers and prejudices people experience when thinking about their own old age?

By the end of december they will be handing in their papers.

“I don’t feel as old as I remember my own parents were at this age” (Hans)

We are now in the proces of doing the first field research and we’re interviewing around 10 participants about how they deal with their personal futures.

“We are in luxurious position of not having to deal with this” (Mathilde)

Renee and Alissa have designed beautiful material that participants will receive in preparation of the interview.

The elective Contextmapping Skills 2016 has started!

The students of this elective will learn the skills of contextmapping while they explore how people deal with their futures in the domains of housing, finance, career, health and services.

Woonbron, ABN-AMRO, CNV and Hart en Vaatgroep are the companies involved. They have all formulated a brief for the students that is closely linked to MyFutures.