Exploring Creativity and Innovation
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours Face to Face + Blended
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2022 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
This unit aims to provide a practical introduction to using selected innovation tools and methods in different contexts. Through hands-on learning, students will acquire familiarity with concepts, terms and processes that are part of a meaningful toolkit for implementing creativity and innovation in many different business and industry sectors and/or discipline areas. This unit emphasises learning-by-doing for knowledge and skills development, with students engaging in interdisciplinary projects to gain competency in working collaboratively as part of contemporary innovation practice.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Analyse the nature of innovation culture in context including factors that stimulate and inhibit creativity, ideation and collaboration.
2. Develop basic creativity and innovation skills by applying relevant tools to specific tasks
3. Interpret how creativity, design and innovation are interconnected, scalable and replicable processes.
4. Develop design solutions iteratively, through ideation, user testing and prototyping.
5. Apply sprint methodology to a complex, real-world challenge
6. Collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary teams on an innovation project integrating social, technological and environmental impacts
Courses with unit
Applied Innovation SuiteUnit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
| Activity Type | Activity | Total Hours | Number of Weeks | Hours Per Week | Optional - Activity Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face to Face Contact | Other | 36 | 12 weeks | 3 | or equivalent |
| Specified Learning Activities | Readings | 12 | 12 weeks | 1 | or equivalent |
| Specified Learning Activities | Various | 60 | 12 weeks | 5 | or equivalent |
| Unspecified Learning Activities | Independent Learning | 42 | 12 weeks | 3.5 | |
| Total Hours: | 150 | Total Hours (per week): | 12.5 | ||
Assessment
Reflective Piece (Individual) 30%
Project 1 (Group) 30%
Project 2 (Group) 40%
Content
This unit may include:
- Using tools for bringing creativity and innovation to interdisciplinary practice
- Experiencing the culture of innovation including teamwork, collaboration and failing forward
- Creativity, curiosity and perseverance in relation to complexity and ambiguity – shifting from solving a problem to finding a better problem to solve
- Data collection, analysis and synthesis
- Hands-on ideation methods and techniques
- The technological, human and economic factors influencing complex challenges
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.