81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation

Description

This subject explores the nature of innovation, highlighting the various conditions and contexts for its practice. Students explore socio-technical systems which enable and support innovations to occur, its shaping of human behaviour, and its relation to sustainability and social equity.

Through the lens of human-scale development, students critically examine the social practices of modern life as a result of past innovations, and consider how they might innovate towards more ecologically and socially responsible futures. Developing insights from the past, and challenging current innovation paradigms, students explore a range of approaches to change-making. By engaging with different values-driven innovation concepts, students are challenged to consider and address complex issues through new lenses.