LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:
- Understand the conditions of creative and constructive design processes
- Support creativity in teamwork
- Acknowledge the role of creative approaches in addressing sustainability challenges
Credits: 1
Schedule: 16.09.2022 - 23.09.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Mikko Jalas
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
MUO-E8028 - Creative Teamwork, Fall 2022
Teacher in charge of the course: Mikko Jalas, mikko.jalas@aalto.fi, tel 0403538247
Other teachers: Gloria Lauterbach, Aalto University department of design, tel 0465464906
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course introduces concepts and methods to support creativity in different work processes. During the course, students work on individual assignments and in multidisciplinary teams on an assignment relating to creative teamwork.
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Fall 2022 theme: "Exploring/mapping the ecosystem, we are part of"
Creative teamwork is built on perception, empathy, dialogue, attention, and, naturally, creativity. Living at times of socio-environmental crises, teamwork is as crucial as ever before.
In the course Creative Teamwork, we practice changing our perception from ”one” to ”other”, focusing on our surrounding, the changes the surrounding is going through and our embeddedness in this process. To practice this change of perspective, the course location - Lapinlahden Lähde - is a generous environment, allowing mapping exercises of a great variety of agents, times, and positions. Therefore, we start the course with a guided tour through Lapinlahden Lähde to set the grounds for a deeper engagement with the place and the agents that are part of it. On day 1 you will in groups conduct interviews with humans and more-than-humans alike and create maps visioning the dialogues between the botanical, built and material systems of the location. Between day 1 and day 2 you will create in groups stories that give voice to these mapped agents. On day 2 you will narrate these stories while guiding the other groups through your visioned Lapinlahde Lähde.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Successful completion of the course requires:
Participation in all sessions
Delivery of individual assignments
Participation in groupwork and the delivery of group assignment
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Participation in both of the teaching days is mandatory.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
1 ECTS = 27 hours.
Participation in lectures and workshops, 12 hours
Groupwork, 6 hours
Literature, 3 hours
Personal tasks, 3 hours
Personal reflection, 3 hours
DETAILS
Study Material
applies in this implementation
Pre-assingment: Read two book chapters of the course literature (Reader_MUO-E8028 - Creative Teamwork Fall 2022_.pdf)
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
5 Gender Equality
10 Reduced Inequality
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language : English
Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn I
2023-2024 Autumn IEnrollment :
Registration for courses: Sisu.
This course is available only for Master's degree students of Creative Sustainability. (And students in the BA programme of Design who have been selected to enter the Creative Sustainability studies.)
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Please note that much of the teaching will take place outdoors. Please prepare for the weather and remember to bring warm clothes. Please also note that you can bring your lunch or have lunch at the cafeteria at your own cost.
Details on the schedule
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Location: Lapinlahti area, address: Lapinlahdenpolku 8, 00180 Helsinki, https://lapinlahdenlahde.fi/
Meeting at the courtyard of Lapinlahti, or in the case of rain, inside the main lobby
DAY1 16.9.2022
9.00 Meeting at the courtyard of Lapinlahti, or in the case of rain, inside the main lobby
9.15.-10.15 Introduction
Break
10.25-11.10 Tour of Lapinlahti. Try to think what you see and what you do not see. Try to locate traces something that is only vaguely present.
11.10-11.30 Promenade of agents: interesting starting points or possible agents.
11.30-12.00 Giving the exercise: Get to know a non-human agent or non-present agent (examples will be given). Provide insights in a form of an ‘interview’ discussion about the interests, intentions, or conditions of existence of the entity. What kinds of interdependencies can you locate? Who’s is trying to sustain what, and what are the justifications?
12.00-13.00 Lunch (bring your own or buy from café. Prices at café: daily soup: 8,50/ sandwiches: 4,80/ warm salty cakes: 5,50)
13.00-14.30 Meeting with Leena Lankoski, Mark Hughes and Mikko Jalas. In three groups.
break
14.45-15.15 Teamwork practices and exercises
15.15-17.00 Work with your groupwork assignment and the ‘interviewee’ at the site?
In between 16. and 23.9.
Work with your interviewee at the site and/or do research on it.
Create an interaction piece, e.g. interview with your agent.
Plan a15min session for the class with your agent.
Mark your actor/interviewee on a map at a Miro board. DL 22.9.klo 12.
DAY2 23.9.2022 (meet at the courtyard)
9.00-11.20 A walk with seven destinations (7*15 min + transit time). The format of your 15 min session is free. Please consider if you can engage your classmates.
11.20- 12.20 Lunch
12.20-14.40 A second round of a walk with seven destinations
break
14.50-15.40 Reflection on groupwork: What aspects of sustainability did the interviews and experiences during the walk relate to? Organise the interviews and possible learning in a scheme.
15.40-16.15 Presentation of 7 schemes, each 3 minutes.
- Teacher: Jalas Mikko