DM2803 Transformative Change in Complex Systems, Project Course 15.0 credits

In this challenge driven project course, the students get the possibility to analyse and handle complex and wicked sustainability problems in collaboration with the surrounding society. The students learn to identify and analyse needs, challenges and goal conflicts and to design interventions that intend to achieve change. The projects will be based on sustainability-related problems that stakeholders in the surrounding society have formulated. In the course students also evaluate interventions to ensure they support the society in general, organisations, individuals, other species and whole ecosystems locally as well as globally, in the short and long term. The students will also be given tools to lead trans-disciplinary co-creative processes where transformative learning can be identified and developed. The projects are reported both orally and in writing.

After passing the course, the student should be able to

• identify and analyse needs, challenges, and goal conflicts within the scope of a given complex societal challenge
• give an account of their own contribution to transformative change in complex systems given limited information and by using inter- and trans-disciplinary co-creative processes
• evaluate the need for, and develop the key competencies, that are required for a sustainable transition
• evaluate interventions aiming to achieve change in complex systems in relation to what supports the society, humans, other species and ecosystems locally as well as globally in the short and long term
• provide arguments for which interventions are needed and which are not

in order to

• be able to respond to and handle intractable problems in challenge-driven projects
• be able to encourage and lead change in a world that is increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

Knowledge in management of complex change processes, 7.5 credits, equivalent to completed course DM2800.

Knowledge in sustainability, 6 credits, equivalent to completed course DM2573/AL1504/AL1523.

Knowledge of complex change processes is necessary. Those who, at the start of the course, have not completed 7,5 credits corresponding to DM2800 must read DM2800 in parallel with DM2803, see under additional regulations in the syllabus.

• DEL1 - Active participation, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO1 - Project work, 10.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• INL1 - Hand-in assignment, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Mandatory attendance (75%) at the sessions that involve co-creation processes.

Daniel Pargman

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

In this course, the EECS code of honor applies, see:
http://www.kth.se/en/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex