LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will learn:
-to understand business opportunities and practices of their own arts and design fields
-to gain an overview of basic professional and business practices in their respective fields
-to create a personal entrepreneurship career assessment
-to gain basic business literacy and skills including user research, marketing etc
-to apply this knowledge to a specific arts and design field or market
-to give a professional presentation on their ideas
-to understand how to build sustainable work methods
Credits: 3
Schedule: 24.10.2023 - 28.11.2023
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Johannes Kaira, Paula Hohti
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
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:
Entrepreneurial practices, what is entrepreneurship, planning, negotiating, calculating and optimizing.
Students will work individually and in small groups to analyze the business practices of their fields and define characteristics of an ideal art entrepreneur. What needs to be done to keep customers happy, bank balance on the plus side and mental and physical health in check. Exercises include role model interviews, customer interviews and reflection. Essentially, they go through the business model canvas. They will also practice negotiating skills and make financial calculations. The sessions include guest lecturers from different areas of creative industry and discussions about dilemmas related to the relationship between art and entrepreneurship.
Final submission will be a presentation of the entrepreneurial landscape of a specific creative field
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Participating in the lectures, submitting all the assignments.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Contact teaching 21 hours.
Independent work 60 hours.
Lectures
Group work
Individual work
Interviews
Reflection
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
3 Good Health and Well-being
5 Gender Equality
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
12 Responsible Production and Consumption
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching hours: 21 h
Independent work: 60 h
Teaching Language : English
Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II
2023-2024 Autumn IIEnrollment :
Registration for courses: Sisu. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture, https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-at-aalto-arts
Minimum amount of participants: 10. Maximum amount of participants: 50.