Aim
The course aims at applying the system thinking on an existing student project and/or the student's design process. The course also aims at introducing a common language for design that could be useful in multi disciplinary situations and co-operations. The individual design process will be approached from different perspectives - how does it meet systematic thinking, the analysis, the creative process called the black box?

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to use system design as a tool within architecture

• be able to use system design for abstraction of reality and complex systems

• define and visualize a system and its consisting parts and how they relate to each other

• search into the relation between the intuitive and the systemic.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• practise the skill of handling the design process, to explain and mediate ideas and concepts

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• develop an understanding for the designprocess and how the process relates to the product

Contents
The course gives examples of how different architects and designers work. With these different perspectives in mind the student will look into, define and analyse his/her own work process. The course also discuss different methods in abstract modelling and how these handle in-data, from analysis to the synthesising of information and evaluation of results. Sketch exercises and mini exercises will be included.

Literature
Gustafsson, Lanshammar, Sundblad: System och modell. En introduktion till systemanalysen, Lund, 1982
Haraldsson, Hördur V.: Introduction to System Thinking and Causal Loop Diagrams.
Lawson, Bryan: How designers think – the design process demystified, Butterworth Architecture, 1990.
Pallasmaa, Juhani: The eyes of the skin- architecture and the senses, Academy group Ltd, London, 1996.
Lundequist, Jerker: Design och produktutveckling, metoder och begrepp, Studentlitteratur, Lund 1995.
Selected papers