81540 Technology, Methods and Creative Practice
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 81539 Impossibilities to Possibilities
Anti-requisite(s): 81512 Creative Practice and Methods AND 81538 Frame Innovation AND 94672 Creative Methods and Entrepreneurial Initiatives
Note
This subject is offered every two years.
Description
This subject focuses on understanding how technology, methods and creative practice can provoke innovation. Participants' ideas for designing an innovative solution in the context of undertaking a central project for a client are rethought. Faced with a client's complex challenge, participants create propositions in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment, shape processes of discovery and exploration, generate solutions, develop visual literacy, and create frameworks for critiquing and judging proposals. The subject builds on values such as risk-taking and inquisitiveness, promoting participants' potential for research, analysis and creative practice.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Examine, select, create and apply various techniques and methods for understanding, visualising, interpreting and investigating both simple and complex problems. |
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| 2. | Participate collaboratively in teams and apply team-based decision making approaches to deliver on a client brief. |
| 3. | Test and articulate the value of different methods for exploring, understanding and addressing complex challenges in creative and useful ways. |
| 4. | Explore and ideate using a range of methods from different disciplines and professional practices. |
| 5. | Use a range of appropriate media and techniques creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to communicate ideas. |
| 6. | Work within a professional context or with a client to design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment. |
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
This subject contributes to the following course intended learning outcomes:
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)
Integrate findings from research and problem / stakeholder / data analysis in creative and useful ways to generate a proposal. (CILO 2.3)
Critically examine, test, appreciate and articulate the speculative or actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, whether at a societal, organizational, community or individual level. (CILO 2.4)
Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions. (CILO 3.2)
Use a range of appropriate data, tools, techniques, technologies and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts. (CILO 3.3)
Design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment that engage with and respond respectfully, generatively and analytically to different ways of knowing across community and cultural contexts. (CILO 4.2)
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject will consist of six full days on campus scheduled over 3 weeks, supplemented by online resources and activities.
Learning will take place in a collaborative, experiential, studio-based environment. Students will work with academics and professionals across a range of disciplines and undertake a project set in a real life context to explore the use of technology and methods in creative practice.
Content (topics)
- Creative practice and methods
- Sensemaking
- Role of precincts
- Technology as method and practice
- Team-based decision making
- Data visualisation and storytelling
- Evaluating proposals
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Understanding the context
| Type: | Report |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 20% |
| Length: | 1000 words and a visualisation |
Assessment task 2: Methods exploration and discovery
| Type: | Report |
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| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed |
| Weight: | 40% |
| Length: | Approximately 1,200 words or equivalent |
Assessment task 3: Communicating value
| Type: | Presentation |
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| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed |
| Weight: | 40% |
| Length: | Class presentation with supporting documentation |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment task in order to pass this subject.
Required texts
No required texts. Readings and other resources will be provided online.
Other resources
UTS Campus Reactivation Information
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