PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Sustainable and Digital Transformation for designers

Description: This course aims at providing knowledge and concrete examples of sustainable digital transformation, and of the different approaches that can shape and frame it. The course takes as its starting point at the need for a profound transformation of socio-ecological dynamics to ensure a livable future for all. The required transformation should, at the same time, be sustainable and digital, and it should include the multitude of social, environmental, and technological elements that constitute the fabric of human practices of living in a common world. The course will discuss what this can mean through examples, which will be selected by the teachers based on the research questions of the participants. Such concrete topics can include, but are not limited to, data caring, waste management, sustainable interaction design, communing practices, cooperative platforms, green algorithms, and so on and so forth. The course will raise questions on the effects, values and stories linked to data and digitalization, as well as discuss how caring for the climate and environment can scope and create new social-technical configurations.

The course is built on the principles of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) model that focuses on learning by doing and reflection. The course is a 2-day Ph.D. course where the Ph.D. students meet to discuss applications of theories and principles from their own work, the literature that is provided for the course on design perspectives, sustainability, and digital transformation. Additionally, will there be presentations from the researchers involved to support the students’ thinking and construction of new ideas. The physical attendance will include individual and group work around student’s own work, cases, exercises, and discussion sessions and workshops.

For additional information, updates, and registration, please refer to AAU PhD Moodle via the link provided on the right side of this page.