From: Juliet MacDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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HEA workshop:
Interdisciplinary Imaginations - using creative methodologies to solve
'wicked
problems'<http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/AH/GEN939_U
niversity_of_Huddersfield>
Date: 14 Jan 2014
Time: 10:00 am
Venue: University of Huddersfield
This event is funded as part of the Arts & Humanities workshop and seminar
series 2013-14. The workshop is free to attend for delegates from both
subscribing and non-subscribing institutions but booking is essential to
secure your place as numbers are limited.
Creative methodologies are often used to facilitate interdisciplinary
solutions for Świcked problemsą. But can these divergent thinking tools aid
interdisciplinary learning in the arts and humanities and with what
benefits? This group workshop invites delegates to creative collaborative
solutions by testing different art and design approaches to problem-solving.
This workshop intends to generate new knowledge and understanding of
creative methodologies in the context of interdisciplinary problem solving.
Delegates will be introduced to what constitutes a Świcked problemą and how
one might tackle it within a teaching and learning context. It will
contextualise different approaches to the use of creative methodologies in
postgraduate education, through art and design methodologies and more widely
through interdisciplinary networks of social entrepreneurship. The workshop
activities will equip delegates with the skills of practicing soft systems
methodologies (rich pictures), Edward de Bonoąs six thinking hats approach,
inference based actions and design thinking models (empathy building and
divergent thinking). These skills will be applied to different problems with
the purpose of delegates experiencing first-hand interdisciplinary learning
across the disciplines.
This event promotes the idea that the condition of the interdisciplinary
imagination has the potential to create new learning experiences. The
interdisciplinary group can facilitate differing perspectives, deploy and
invent new methodologies, actively engage in dialogical processes to produce
different dynamics from that of the established disciplines. In this
context, the interdisciplinary imagination is also a cross-, trans-. multi-,
and intra-creative process to be experienced within the group.
ŚWicked problemsą, broadly defined, are social or cultural issues that are
almost impossible to solve, due to their complexity. Humanitarian issues are
familiar wicked problems: poverty, education, health, sustainability and
equality are all indeterminate in scope and scale and thus never resolvable
with one clear-cut solution. In the 1970s, Horst Rittel and Melvin M. Webber
identified ten characteristics that make problems Świckedą (Rittel and
Webber, 1973). These features soon became the benchmark for identifying new
and innovative ways to address to the complex barriers of large-scale
issues. Bell and Morse (1999), Brown, Harris and Russell (2012), Crouch and
Pearce (2012) present current theories and debates within which wicked
problems sit, including the positive effects design thinking can bring to
these dilemmas.
Calls to actively tackle wicked problems have become a popular feature of
macro research trends in design and social entrepreneurship (see Austin
Center for Design, Studio H and RSA Ideas and Actions for a 21st Century
enlightenment). The magnitude of complex global issues highlights a growing
demand for interdisciplinary teams to come together to effect social change
through collaboration. At the core of this growing cultural and social
phenomenon is an understanding of the value and benefits of working
collectively and creatively, divergently and discursively. Such approaches
provide opportunities to tap into interdisciplinary learning experiences,
and can be used to actively problem-solve specific issues (see De Bono,
1985; Checkland and Poulter, 2006).
For full details of the programme and bookings:
Interdisciplinary Imaginations - using creative methodologies to solve
'wicked
problems'<http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/AH/GEN939_U
niversity_of_Huddersfield>
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Sue Gollifer
University of Brighton
School of Art, Design and Media
Director of ISEA International Headquarters
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