Overview

Indicative content includes:

• Systems in real-world scenarios
• We readily understand and solve problems that are well defined, but the systems we need to design are required to work in the real world; in situations that are ill-defined.
• Systems Thinking
• Systems interact with their environment creating outcomes that are unexpected.
• Frameworks, processes, and methods to understand complex human-centred challenges.
• Models taken from control theory to model human and social systems.
• Design Thinking
• Direct, linear approaches to solving complex problems seldom work.
• Iterative, divergent and convergent proceses and methods and the co-evolution of problem-solution pairs.
• Structured Communicaiton
• Complex challenges are multifaceted and scenario based approaches.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply frameworks, processes and methods to explore and analyse complex human centred challenges.

• Combine and apply frameworks to develop and deliver prototypes for solutions to problems analysed.

• Communicate challenges, their component aspects, potential solutions and their designs in an efficient manner.

• Illustrate systems, in real-world scenarios, using frameworks that help discover and define complex human-centric problems.