Hot Team - innovation project, 7.5 Credits

Contents

The student will carry out a product/service design development project in interdisciplinary teams with students from different departments and educational programs. The project is conducted together with the students of the Bachelor Programme in Industrial Design at Umeå Institute of Design and is highly focused on "Design Thinking".
The goal of the study is to gain insight into innovative teamwork, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation issues. The student will, through practical application, issue an applied project in an interdisciplinary team with an external company, organisation or authority. The student will reflect on and apply group mechanisms and individual factors that affect their innovations - both for the individual student and for the team they participate in and reflect on differences between project work and interdisciplinary teamwork.

Expected learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:
 

• exemplify and apply spatial factors that influence the social interaction of a team
• practice and complete an innovative product/service design project in a multidisciplinary team
• plan and conduct an activity analysis and reintroduce results and process back to the team so that the team becomes responsible for the result and process
• plan and execute joint open creative group methods
• exemplify individual abilities and group dynamic processes that promote integration and interaction in a multidisciplinary teamwork
• reflect on their own role, professional role and the influence of various factors on the team and the team process
• discuss differences and similarities between multidisciplinary project work and interdisciplinary teamwork
• conduct a joint oral and communicative argumentative presentation of work process and results

Required Knowledge

For admission to the course, students must previously have conducted and passed a minimum of 120 ECTS credits.

Form of instruction

Teaching methods includes the establishment of a team studio, partly independent work in teams, active presence in teamwork, reflection books, reflections through board and personas, active presence in creative methods, seminars and meetings as introduction, intermediate presentation and final presentations. Supervision to some extent.

Examination modes

Examination is carried out partly through active participation in project work in teams, and individually with at least one element of reviewing character, and through active participation in teamwork, introduction, joint and student-prepared tutorials and workshops, intermediate presentations and a final presentation. Generic knowledge is examined with active participation and with at least three argumentative elements in forum games as well as submitting reflection assignments and reflection books. In order to obtain credits, each student enrolled orally report and submit what is required in the descriptions in the course- and student guidance. The grade in the applied project consists of an overall assessment of problem complexity linked to the problem definition, completion of the work processes based on team definition and results given individually. The grades Fail (U) or Pass (G) is awarded the student.

For students in need of special pedagogical support due to disabilities, individual adaptation of examination forms should always be considered based on the student's needs. The examination form is adjusted within the framework of the course syllabus' intended learning outcomes. The course coordinating teacher shall, upon request from the student, consult with the examiner to quickly decide on an adjusted form of examination. The decision shall then be conveyed to the student.

For students who have not obtained the grade Pass, other examination sessions will be arranged. A student who for two consecutive examinations for the same course or sub-course has not been passed, has the right to have another examiner appointed, if there are no special reasons against this (Higher Education Ordinance chapter 6, 22 §). The request for a new examiner shall be made in writing to the Head of Department at Umeå Institute of Design.

ACADEMIC CREDIT TRANSFER
Equivalency credits cannot be given to this course since it builds on the teams shared experiences and results in discussions and reflections of completed work.