94713 Studio Project 2

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Description

In a MCISI Studio subject, participants collectively take on a complex real-world challenge provided by a partner organisation or network. In that context of a shared public challenge, participants apply, trial and experiment with the concrete methods and tools they have gained through undertaking the Foundation, Key Enabling Methodologies and Elective subjects. Across the Studios in the program, a variety of specific project challenges are offered by public and private sector partnerships. All of these possible challenges are tackled in the context of the changing global environment (for example, global trends, UN Sustainable Development Goals) and as whole-industry/ system transformation challenges. The emphasis of the studios varies depending on the subject matter at hand (between the project level vs strategic level, internal initiatives vs a broader innovation ecosystem, small scale vs global, etc.). Studios have two streams: one centres on Creative Intelligence with its focus on a project to create new ways forward in the problem situation; the second on Strategic Innovation with a focus on new processes, structures, networks and ecosystems.

Contribution to the development of graduate attributes

The five graduate attribute categories of the Creative Intelligence and Innovation course area are:

GA1 Complex systems thinking

GA2 Create value in problem-solving and inquiry GA3 Inter- and trans-disciplinary practices

GA4 Imaginative and ethical citizenship

GA5 Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial skills.

Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) are linked to these categories using codes (e.g. 1.1, 2.3,

4.2, etc.).

The REVIEW criteria-based assessment system is being adopted in the marking of subjects to give

students feedback about their development of these graduate attribute categories over time

throughout their course of study. REVIEW also enables students to self-assess to encourage a selfreflective

approach to their work.

Conceive a problem or challenge from transdisciplinary perspectives by drawing across

disciplines and fields of practice to evaluate the strategic points of leverage and impact

potential (CILO 1.2)

• Draw together a cross section of methods to gather data, frame, experiment, iterate and

synthesize new approaches and ways of understanding the challenge (CILO 2.3)

• Work independently and in teams to inquire, inform and generate transformative approaches

to collective innovation that mobilises innovation ecologies and systems change (CILO 3.2)

• Use creative methods and practices drawn from CISI subjects and professional domains to

experiment, integrate and evaluate the strategic potential (CILO 3.3)

Teaching and learning strategies

This Studio subject is offered in a block mode, a face-to-face interactive workshop. Learning involves trialling new knowledge and developing reflective insights generated in Foundation and KEM and Elective subjects. Learners playfully experiment with ideas by working collectively on a complex cross-sector challenge with other participants and organisations. During the Studio, you will enjoy the support, inspiration and cross-fertilisation of ideas within a professional cohort and receive feedback from academic researchers and industry mentors. The subject concludes with a presentation, pitch of proposed responses or a creative intervention to an invited audience of industry and network experts for feedback to provoke possibilities for taking the ideas further.

Content (topics)

• Developing a plan for CISI learning in a bespoke studio setting
• Visioning strategic and bold, future oriented directions for transforming challenge
• Work on tailored, context specific approaches by drawing diverse vocational practices.
• Designing experiments through developing iterative projects and documenting to insights
• Catalyse discussion about innovation practices in action.
• Developing and sustaining your innovation ecology by working with peers, academics, industry mentors and colleagues to generate feedback as part on ongoing innovation loops.
• Identify and mobilise structure and networks that support thriving innovation ecosystems.

Minimum requirements

To pass this subject students must make a reasonable attempt to meet the expectations outlined in the brief of each assessment task, and achieve an overall pass grade for the subject.

Recommended texts

Academic Articles & Case Study: Folder Link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZhNhi8X6AlJ7TMN-u8fT1QTZerwqFf3k

Adjacent Possible, Lennart Björneborn, in the The Palgrave encyclopedia of the possible, 2022

Critical Worldbuilding: Toward a Geographical Engagement with Imagined Worlds, 2022

Warm data: Contextual research and the evolution of science, Nora Bateson, 2017

Case Study: Recasting stories about energy in a post pandemic world – an academic article and case study, 2021

Media:

This is what makes Pixar so successful according to Ed Catmull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMMKWVIUqm8

Storytelling Can Be a Force for Social Change, WEF

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/storytelling-for-social-change-communication-initiative/

Industry Case Studies

Lights, Camera, Sustainable Action: How Matchbox Pictures Makes Sustainability the Star of Their Productions https://www.sustainablescreens.au/in-action/matchbox-pictures

https://www.sustainablescreens.au/

https://theatregreenbook.com/