81539 Impossibilities to Possibilities
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Anti-requisite(s): 81511 Problems to Possibilities
Description
In this subject, participants engage in a creative series of practical activities that bring them to a broad understanding of creative intelligence and innovation as a field of practice. Through exploring what appear to be impossibilities, they begin to investigate and reframe uncertain and complex challenges, and experiment with emerging opportunities.
Participants are challenged to analyse problem situations from multiple perspectives and to integrate these findings in ways that lead to new possibilities. The nature of this subject embraces today's open, complex, dynamic and networked problems. Through first-hand experience, students are inspired to experiment and hone their skills through multidisciplinary collaboration, visualisation, representation and presentation.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Explore and represent relationships and interconnectedness of a complex environment. |
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| 2. | Manipulate and communicate experiences, ideas and findings to see the problem or context differently. |
| 3. | Identify, describe and explore a range of challenges in order to discern significant opportunities. |
| 4. | Select, test and evaluate different disciplinary methods for gaining insights into a complex system. |
| 5. | Explain the thinking behind particular selections of ideas, strategies, findings and interpretations generated in multi-disciplinary teams. |
| 6. | Develop a clear and convincing rationale to support the proposal for a particular possibility. |
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
This subject contributes to the following course intended learning outcomes:
Identify and represent the components and processes within complex systems and organise them within relational frameworks (CILO 1.1).
Select, apply and evaluate various techniques and technologies for investigating and interpreting complex systems (CILO 1.2).
Explore the relevance and test the value of frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems (CILO 2.1).
Research and analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives to develop a deep understanding of the needs, interests and values of multiple stakeholders (CILO 2.2).
Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines (3.1).
Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively and ethically on them (4.1).
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject will consist of six full days over 2-3 weeks, supplemented by online modules and activities. Learning will take place in a collaborative, immersive, experiential, studio-based environment. Students will work with academics and professionals across a wide range of disciplines.
Content (topics)
- Different disciplinary practices
- Future science and physics of the impossible
- Innovation models
- Introduction to systems thinking and complexity
- Visualisations, provotypes and other representational techniques
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Impossible Remix
| Type: | Case study |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 35% |
Assessment task 2: Im-possibilities in the Field
| Type: | Presentation |
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| Groupwork: | Group, group assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 3: Possibilities in my Field
| Type: | Reflection |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 35% |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment task in order to pass this subject. Please note: there is an 80% attendance requirement.
Required texts
No required texts. Readings and other resources will be provided online.
Recommended texts
Please refer to UTS Online for a list of readings. These readings are an important resource for your Assignments.
