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2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PDES1200 Using Creativity and Innovation to Solve Problems

10 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Mr Dan Trowsdale
Email: D.B.Trowsdale@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is mutually exclusive with

PDES1145Visualisation Techniques
PDES2510Creativity, Innovation and Shape Systems

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module has been developed for the Enterprise & Innovation Discovery Theme. The module provides students from any academic background with knowledge and skills needed to generate, communicate and evaluate creative and innovative solutions to externally set challenges. Students will learn about theories and practical approaches to creative and innovative thinking and how to communicate visually using sketches. The module includes drawing as communication rather than art and students do not need to be able to draw to succeed in the module. The final assessment will be through a full-day Creativity & Innovation Event (probably scheduled for a Saturday towards the end of the module), where students will work in teams to apply learning from the module to address a societal challenge that will be introduced by problem owners or their representatives.

Objectives

On completion of this module students should be able to:
1) outline key characteristics of theories for creative and innovative practice in a variety of problem solving contexts;
2) use these theories to analyse problems and develop solutions;
3) communicate solution ideas using sketches and other means of visual communication;
4) use systematic approaches to evaluate results of creative and innovative processes.
5) reflect on their personal skills and attributes in these areas and define strategies for their personal development;
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...

Learning outcomes
- Creativity in problem solving
- What is creativity?
- barriers and enablers of creativity
- reativity in analysing and solving problems
- Innovation in problem solving
- What is innovation?
- Issues to consider in the delivery of innovative solutions
- Visual Communication in problem solving
- Visual thinking and its role in the analysis and definition of problems
- Communicating with sketches and other means of visual communication

Skills outcomes
Sketching, creativity, innovation, visual communication


Syllabus

- Creativity in problem solving
- Theories of creativity
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Ways of assessing creativity
- Barriers and enablers of creativity
- Creativity in analysing and solving problems
- Innovation in problem solving
- Theories of innovation
- Product, process and supply network innovation
- Visual Communication in problem solving
- Sketching and drawing for communication
- Using sketches to communicate problems and solution ideas visually
- Communicating with different audiences, including clients and potential investors
- Visual thinking and its role in the analysis and definition of problems
- Understanding and rewriting problems and including users’ perspectives, including capturing user insights & user evaluation.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
On-line Learning46.0024.00
Workshop18.008.00
Workshop22.004.00
Lecture12.002.00
Seminar22.004.00
Private study hours58.00
Total Contact hours42.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)100.00

Private study

Independent learning
- On-line resources for:
- visual communication and sketching
- creativity: theories and practice
- product innovation
- process and supply chain innovation (using digital assets developed as part of Leeds Innovation MOOC)
- Private study
- Application of learning from on-line resources
- Completion of assignments
- Preparation for and reflection on Creativity & Innovation Challenge

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Assignments will be set through the term and discussed in seminars scheduled through the term.
Completion of on-line resources will be monitored using VLE tools.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Group ProjectCreativity and Innovation event30.00
Reflective logIncluding final communication of solution30.00
ReportEntries on a VLE Wiki based gallery. Results of assignment.20.00
ReportEntries on a VLE Wiki based gallery. Results of innovation assignment20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

August resit will be available.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 09/02/2018

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