NIFK20000U Food Concept Design
Msc Programme in Integrated Food Studies
The aim of the course is to give the students insight into the socio-material basis for conceptual food design approaches (such as design thinking). The combination of practical and theoretical excercises will enable the students to make creative and unique solutions informed by relevant theory to improve food services and experiences as well as broader food system challenges.
The course will have a focus on contemporary sustainable and ethical everyday meals and experience food concepts and their users. However, it will also present and discuss how broader historic developments (economic, social, and cultural) affect both the celebratory and the “everyday design” of our shared and individual food environments. Relevant environments include commercial businesses as well as public institutions.
The course will integrate socio-material design understanding with with more extensive and systemic user experience perspectives and consumer knowledge. The course, therefore, builds upon knowledge from the areas of food sociology and food systems. The studens will gain unique integrative competencies to analyse, visualize and facilitate food design improvements for relevant users interacting with and in different food environments and concepts.
The course draws on, and presents, relevant literature from science and technology studies, food concept design, event-and service design studies, food sociology as well as some applied material cultural analysis. Students are expected to create visual and conceptual solutions that are informed by both theory and practice, and to be able to discuss and present these solutions in an manner that coherently integrates, or reflects, the different fields of study presented through-out the course
Knowledge:
- describe and compare conceptual design methods and models
- understand the socio-material basis of design approaches and its users
- reflect on historical and socio-cultural drivers of food concept design changes
Skills:
analyze the design process in a socio-material approach
apply design methods and tools on a give case
- create theoretically informed designs/concepts for a given case
Competences:
- critically evaluate current food design challenges
- critically reflect on the proces of involving users/actors and suggesting design solutions
- propose and validate new design solutions in a given context
See Absalon for a list of course literature
Participating students will throughout the course have the opportunity to work with “real life” food environments/concepts or pursue own food design experiments in closed lab-environments.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 21
- Preparation
- 115
- Practical exercises
- 42
- Guidance
- 20
- Exam Preparation
- 7
- Exam
- 1
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 20 - 25 minutesOral examination, 20-25 min. No time for preparation.
The portfolio is not included in the assessment. - Exam registration requirements
Submission of an individual portfolio.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
The same as the ordinary exam.
If the portfolio was not handed in before the ordinary exam, the student must submit an portfolio three weeks prior to reexam.
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NIFK20000U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- C
- Course is also available as continuing and professional education
- Study board
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Mette Weinreich Hansen (15-7b738282733c8573777c80737771764e7774807d3c79833c7279)