IDE Design Master Class 2025: Design for complexity
09 April 2025 09:00 till 10 April 2025 18:00 | Add to my calendar
Whether your aim is to update existing knowledge, learn new concepts and/or renew your network, at the IDE Design Master Classes, you learn the latest from those actively working at the forefront of Design. Learn from the experts as well as from other professionals! You can choose to join either on-site or online classes.
The IDE Design Master Classes are a series of inspiring two-day, state-of-the-art on-site Master Classes developed specifically for professionals. In groups of 8 to 16 participants, you gain insights into recent developments in the discipline, learning about the latest methods. A proven and effective way to refine your skills, focus your ambition, simply broaden your mind and be inspired.
Jotte de Koning and Sine Celik will lead the Design for complexity Master Class on 9 & 10 April. Keep reading to find out more and how you can register.
About 'Design for complexity'
Designers are increasingly involved in design initiatives that contribute to tackling complex societal challenges, related to domains such as health & wellbeing, safety, sustainability, and inequality. While designers have unique skills and expertise to contribute to this context, it also requires new design approaches, such as ‘systemic design’ and ‘transition design’.
Learning Objectives
- Recognise systemic ways of looking at the world and its challenges using perspectives from systems thinking, complexity and transition thinking;
- Distinguish different types of complex problem contexts and recognise when it is appropriate to apply designerly practices;
- Apply design principles for complex societal challenges that build on the unique strength of designers to ‘humanise’ systems;
- Apply methods and practices to design for and explore complex challenges systemically to a specific design case;
- Reflect on the role of designers in the context of complex challenges and societal transitions.