Innovation Challenge Project

DES30066 25 Credit Points Hawthorn Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students

Duration

  • One Semester

Contact hours

  • 72

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

2021 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 1 Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
1 Mar 21 - 30 May 21

Results:
6 Jul 21

Last self enrolment:
14 Mar 21

Census:
31 Mar 21

Last withdraw without fail:
16 Apr 21

Dates:
2 Aug 21 - 31 Oct 21

Results:
7 Dec 21

Last self enrolment:
15 Aug 21

Census:
31 Aug 21

Last withdraw without fail:
17 Sep 21

Prerequisites

DES20057 Toolbox for Prototyping and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
AND
ENT20006 Lean Startup Springboard OR DES30065 NEXT Innovation Accelerator

Aims and objectives

This unit provides the opportunity for students to experience and understand the challenges of working as part of an interdisciplinary team. Students will apply various creative problem solving tools and approaches to generate and develop innovative solutions in response to a real-world project brief. Students will develop project management and entrepreneurial skills in professional and research contexts for inclusive innovation cultures. Students will be coached by academic members of staff from different disciplines. They will be expected to engage in projects with high levels of self-direction that will include personal accountability and responsibility, while collaborating with others.
 
 Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Apply judgement to planning and decision making for creative problem solving and user research methods, in relation to a given project or problem.
2. Deal effectively with constraints, timelines and project requirements that develop ideas into designed solutions proposed for a complex and/or large-scale project.
3. Articulate and justify project proposals to a variety of stakeholders using a range of written, verbal, and visual communication processes.
4. Effectively use prototyping techniques to communicate, explore and test ideas to develop an appropriate design solution.
5. Demonstrate entrepreneurial processes to develop and justify the business case of a proposed design solution.
6. Construct collaborative and inclusive management processes and skills to working in an interdisciplinary team in relation to a specific project.