Emotional Awareness

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The ability to recognize and make sense of not just your own emotions, but also those of others at any time in the design process, e.g. when you review your own work, receive feedback from others and in collaborations.

Case Studies

  • Senses and Empathy

    Senses and Empathy

    Tarmo Karhu Turku University of Applied Sciences, Design Engineering, 1st year In a user-centered design course, students were given an exercise to better understand their experiences of different senses and develop their capacity for empathy. Students were being organized in three-person groups and instructed to plan and visualize a route that takes them around different…

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  • Stakeholder Mapping

    Stakeholder Mapping

    In a two-semester long capstone project students define, develop and deliver a full design project. Once students have defined the project aim, they are asked to identify all the stakeholders whose needs and interests must be considered in the research phase of the project.  This is often challenging for the  students as they have focused…

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