81521 Envisioning Futures
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 40 credit points of completed study in spk(s): STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation)
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
This subject invites students to explore emerging cutting-edge ideas, existing foresight practices and future scenarios and encourages them to articulate original, well-informed future visions. Students engage in critical inquiry, examining assumptions that underpin contemporary innovation and research agendas to identify preferable future trajectories from a range of perspectives. Students are challenged to explore the generative nature of innovation, inspiration and learning in the context of imagined future worlds. The subject exposes students to a range of engagement modes, encouraging creative and experimental approaches to expression and communication, and culminates in a public event where audiences interact with student-envisioned futures.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Conduct self-directed and collaborative enquiry to explore future trends in professional and disciplinary fields of research and practice |
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| 2. | Identify and evaluate significant issues emerging from disciplinary research and industry practice, and articulate their own agency in creating desirable futures |
| 3. | Devise a creative and research-informed transdisciplinary vision of a future utilising a range of approaches and methods |
| 4. | Experiment across a range of mediums in order to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject contributes specifically to the development of the following course intended learning outcomes:
- Generate insights from the creative translation of models and patterns across different systems (CII.1.4)
- Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines (CII.3.1)
- Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and persuasively to a diverse team or audience (CII.3.4)
- Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively on them (CII.4.1)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The subject provides opportunities for you as a student to draw on diverse disciplinary perspectives through self-directed and collaborative enquiry, conducted across a range of disciplinary and professional fields into cutting-edge research and innovation. You identify and evaluate future trends and utilise a range of futuring approaches and methods to design an original transdisciplinary vision of a future. In doing this you examine paradoxes and ethical dilemmas implicit in current innovation agendas and practices and articulate their own agency in creating desirable futures. Finally, the subject challenges you to experiment with expressing and communicating complex ideas via a public event, where audiences interact with a student-envisioned future.
So your experiences as a student in this subject support you to develop the following graduate attributes (GA):
• GA 1 Complex systems thinking
• GA 3 Inter- and trans-disciplinary practices
• GA 4 Imaginative and ethical citizenship
Teaching and learning strategies
Learning will take place in a collaborative, immersive, experiential, studio-based environment. This subject is enquiry-based: students will conduct individual preparatory research and exploration, which will form the basis for collaborative discovery and interactive learning activities in class. Students will also learn from academics, invited industry professionals and peers across a wide range of disciplines. Staff, peers and invited experts will give formative feedback continually through class activities as students develop their future-oriented projects.
Content (topics)
- Futures thinking – concepts, frameworks and methods
- Multi-scalar spatiotemporal dimensions of the present
- Experimentation with different media and modes of engagement
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Creative Horizon Scanning
| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3 and 4 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): CII.1.4, CII.3.1 and CII.3.4 |
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| Type: | Report |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 40% |
| Length: | 1500 words |
Assessment task 2: Experiential Futures
| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3 and 4 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): CII.1.4, CII.3.4 and CII.4.1 |
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| Type: | Project |
| Groupwork: | Group, group assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 3: What if...?
| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2 and 3 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): CII.3.1, CII.3.4 and CII.4.1 |
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| Type: | Reflection |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 30% |
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 TD School Student Guide. 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.
Recommended texts
See Canvas for list of recommended texts