Self inspired Project
- Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Version
Version 1 of 03.07.2025.
- Module identifier
11B1803
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German, English
- ECTS credit points and grading
10.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Teaching and learning outcomes
• Ideation, conception, planning and implementation of technical systems
• Creativity methods and experimental ideation
• Project planning and management • Iterative design process
• Communication skills in collaboration, presentation, documentation
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 300 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 4 Individual coaching - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 296 Work in small groups -
- Graded examination
- Project Report, medial
- Ungraded exam
- Field work / Experimental work
- Exam duration and scope
Graded examination performance
- Project report (medial): approx. 25 pages, illustrative, photographic, filmic representations
Ungraded examination performance
- Experimental work: approx. 3-month design work from the context of the course.
- Literature
Maximilian Eibl, Harald Reiterer, Peter Friedrich Stephan u. Frank Thissen, Knowledge Media Design: Theorie, Methodik, Praxis, München u. a. 2006.
Deutscher Manager-Verband e. V. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Soft Skills Band 3, Methodenkompetenz, Band 3, Zürich 2004.
Evelyn Boos, Das große Buch der Kreativitätstechniken, München 2007.
Anne Brunner, Kreativer denken: Konzepte und Methoden von A-Z, München 2008.
Rob Eastaway u. Stephanie Ehrenschwendner, Kreatives Denken: 101 Wege neue Ideen zu Entwickeln, Köln 2009.
John Maeda: The Laws of Simplicity, Mit Press, 2006
Sep Kamvar: We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion, Scribner, 2009
R. Klanten: Taken by Surprise, Gestalten, 2012
Christof Breidenich: @Design: Ästhetik, Kommunikation, Interaktion, Springer, 2010
- Applicability in study programs
- Media & Interaction Design
- Media & Interaction Design B.A. (01.09.2024)
- Incoming - Media & Interaction Design B.A. (01.03.2019)
- Person responsible for the module
- Nehls, Johannes
- Teachers
- Nehls, Johannes
- Düchting, Susanne
- Plutka, Björn
- Arndt, Henrik
- Ramm, Michaela
- Mett, Christoph