This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of innovation processes and concepts. Working on cases from existing organizations, students will learn about the systemic approaches, to mapping and identifying possibilities for transformation by looking at their products, services and networks.
Furthermore, using design and artistic strategies students will gain hands on experience into two fundamental modes of transformation and innovation: affirmative and critical approaches, and understand each mode's implications and relevance for the context and goals of the project and organization. This will translate in developing the necessary skills to formulate interventions together with strategies for their implementation. As a result, the students will gain creative agency to envision design interventions, that can enact change and innovation. With a transdisciplinary/participatory approach, this course encourages students to think and actively work and envision how other fields can inform transformative and innovative efforts.
- Teacher: Mariana Costa Oliveira Morais
- Teacher: Joaquin Santuber
- Teacher: Kristina Tica