How can we create systemic change through design?
3 ECTS – WORKSHOP WEEK

LAB Institute of Design and Fine Arts

Lahti, Finland

This intensive course invites students to Lahti, Finland to work together with Finnish students on how we can create systemic change through design.

The course focuses on SDG goals and on how design can make a systemic change for a more sustainable future.

This intensive course emerges from the peer-learning, collaboration and contribution of students from different design disciplines and cultures. Innovative solutions are produced collectively with the use of systemic design methods and co-creation. During this course, the focus lies on doing and learning from each other.

Learning outcomes

– to work as a member of multidisciplinary and multicultural team

– to practice systemic design and co-creation methods

– to shift perspectives and identify solutions at a systemic level

Participants

The course is open for all BA-level design students, interested to work conceptually in multidisciplinary teams.

Schedule

Workshop week at Lahti Campus, Finland: 7 – 11 April 2025
Course lecturer: Maaria Niskala, Senior Lecturer of Digital Service Design
Study places available: Max 10 students in CIRRUS
Apply to join the course by: 20.3.2025 by sending a letter of interest to: Maaria.Niskala@lab.fi

Grant for CIRRUS students: 330 EUR travel (Iceland travel 660 EUR), weekly allowance 250 EUR. (The grant is not available for students from other Finnish institutions unfortunately.)