Senior Lecturer on Design Management: Service and Systemic Design 45– 55%

Senior Lecturer on Design Management: Service and Systemic Design 45– 55%

• Conception of courses to help students develop knowledge and skills in understanding complex systems, dealing with complexity, and designing transformations to address complexity, and understanding transformations as second order effect. To help students understand how ideas and design approaches have shifted in time: patterns of thinking throughout history. To guide students, design and evaluate services, foster innovation capability, and preferable futures.
• Development of content and didactics in the implementation of the curriculum in modules related to services and systemic design, Design Management Theory & History, and Enabling Innovation. The courses are:

Introduction to Systems & Sustainability,
Design Management Theory & History,
Service Design methods, processes and evaluation;
Enabling Innovation;
Seeing the system; Re-thinking the System; Implementing the System.

• Lead, administer and coordinate teaching modules related to the above areas.
• Supervision and mentoring of bachelor student theses.
• Collaboration in the development of the design management programme activities.

• Master in Design or a design related discipline: a degree program to develop knowledge and skills on rigorous research to inquiry multicontextual realities, reflect, understand complex problems, take effective action to make a positive contribution, and when possible evaluate the impact of this contribution.
• In-depth knowledge of current discourses in and around design management, systemic design, service design, complex dynamic systems, design for transformative innovation, design of interventions in complex systems, transition management, and design for regeneration.
• At least five years of work experience outside of academia as a designer or design manager working with diverse stakeholders and in interdisciplinary teams to foster transformation. Understanding the „people“ side of transformation and being able to facilitate such processes.
• An active network.
• Teaching experience at universities (preferably certification).
• Excellent proficiency in English and German

We offer you a stimulating working environment and a professional setting. You will have the opportunity to contribute and implement own ideas and visions in an emerging discipline. The workplace is in Luzern-Emmenbrücke.

The application deadline is June 21, 2024. First interview round will to take place via Zoom on July 1st, second round in our building on July 15 (745 Viscosistadt, Nylsuisseplatz 1, 6020 Emmenbrücke).

We look forward to receiving your online application (link to HSLU online-tool).

Dr. Guillermina Noël
Head of Bachelor Design Management, International
Tel. +41 41 248 61 34 or Write an email

The largest educational institution of the six Central Swiss cantons, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts offers state-of-the-art jobs and programmes. We share knowledge in Switzerland and abroad, we are forward-looking, creative, and committed to interdisciplinarity. Help us to shape and become a part of our shared, sustainable future.