81538 Frame Innovation
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Anti-requisite(s): 81512 Creative Practice and Methods
Description
This subject centres on frame creation, a design-based approach to networked problem solving, developed and used in the UTS Design Innovation Research Centre. Working with the multidisciplinary staff from the centre, participants in this subject engage with the question of how to 'solve the unsolvable' – the open, complex, dynamic and networked problems facing society today. Participants learn the theory behind the nine-step frame creation methodology, putting into practice and testing its associated methods and tools. Through first-hand experience of the power of frame creation, participants create new approaches to problems that have confounded conventional problem-solving practices. They then shift towards the broader practices of frame innovation – the skills, knowledge and mentality required to drive frame creation in an organisation and society.
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. | Contribute to team-based decision making approaches to deliver on complex and open briefs. |
| 3. | Test and articulate the value of different methods for exploring, understanding and addressing complex challenges in creative ways. |
| 4. | Explore and ideate using the Frame Creation methodology. |
| 5. | Use a range of media and techniques creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to communicate ideas. |
| 6. | Work on a client brief to design and develop ideas, strategies and/or practices for betterment. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject contributes specifically to the development of the following course intended learning outcomes:
- Engage professionally with industry, community, government and other stakeholders to mobilise others and enable sustainable and entrepreneurial innovation. (3.2)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The subject provides opportunities for you as a student to draw on diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine the ways stakeholders’ needs, interests and values could be addressed through a creative response to a real-world challenge. Through a thorough step-by-step application of the Frame Innovation methodology you integrate your research findings and stakeholder analysis to critically examine the paradoxes implicit to complex real-world problem situations. You work in multi-disciplinary teams to collaboratively develop a response to an industry or community challenge that is creative, yet sensitive to stakeholder values or cultural contexts.
So your experiences as a student in this subject support you to develop the following graduate attributes (GA):
- GA 2 Creating value in problem solving and inquiry
- GA 3 Inter- and trans-disciplinary practices
- GA 4 Imaginative and ethical citizenship
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject will consist of six full days scheduled over 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 and undertake a project set in a real life context to explore the use of technology and methods in creative practice.
Content (topics)
- Frame creation methodology
- Design based methods
- Team-based decision making
- Data visualisation and storytelling
- Evaluating proposals
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Paradox Box
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2 and 6 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): .2 and .3 |
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| Type: | Case study |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 25% |
Assessment task 2: Methodological Map
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3 and 5 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): .2, .3 and 3.2 |
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| Type: | Report |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 35% |
Assessment task 3: Framing for the Common Good
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3, 4 and 6 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): .2 and 3.2 |
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| Type: | Presentation |
| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed |
| Weight: | 40% |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment task and achieve an overall pass mark in order to pass this subject.
Late penalties apply to all assessment tasks as outlined in the FTDi FYI student booklet. Please consult this booklet for other useful information including Special Consideration, Plagiarism, Extension, and Student Support Services.
A minimum of 80% of attendance of classes (as outlined in the timetable) is required.
Required texts
Dorst, K., Kaldor, L., Klippan, L. and Watson, R., Designing for the Common Good, BIS Publishers, Netherlands
Recommended texts
Dorst, K. (2015) Frame innovation. MIT Press
Dorst, K. (2107) Notes on Design; how creative practice works, BIS Publishers, Netherlands