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How we frame issues determines how we respond to them. This microcredential introduces you to frame innovation, a leading methodology used to reframe complex issues and create innovative strategies to adapt and thrive.

About this microcredential

This six-week microcredential introduces participants to the frame innovation and co-evolution approach to strategic innovation. Frame innovation is a ground-breaking approach that is used to unlock intractable issues to help you create and explore innovative approaches to complex problems.

This microcredential will help you identify and draw out the underlying factors of a situation and apply productive and aspirational logic in order to create new and novel approaches. Uniquely, participants will also explore how these approaches co-evolve with an intractable issue through refinement, scaling, or dampening.

With content drawn from the UTS Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation’s dynamic Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program, participants in this course will engage with the philosophical underpinnings of frame innovation, including the work of the approach founder and globally recognised design innovator, Professor Kees Dorst. Additionally, participants will explore global case studies that illustrate the approaches and apply practical tools from the ‘Designing for the Common Good’ approach to intractable societal issues.

Delivered in a series of highly interactive online workshops (meet virtually face-to-face in real time) and supported with online material and activities, this microcredential will provide an invaluable repertoire of practical approaches that can be strategically applied over a wide range of professional contexts.

Key benefits of this microcredential

This microcredential will provide an understanding of practical tools and methodologies to develop impactful approaches to complex, intractable problems and issues - skills that are highly relevant in any professional context or industry.

This microcredential aligns with the 3 credit point subject, Frame Creation and Co-Evolution (94706) in the Graduate Certificate of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation. This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

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Who should do this microcredential?

Whether you are working in a corporate position, public sector or not-for-profit role, understanding the latest thinking and approaches on how to reframe complex and emerging challenges is a highly valued skillset, that crosses all industries.

Price

Full price: $2,926 (GST free)*

Special price: $2,672 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information. 

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

The course will comprise online interactive workshops, readings, case studies and activities.

Over the six weeks of the course, participants can expect a time commitment of approximately ten hours per week, consisting of:

  • 2 x half-day in-person ‘kick-off’ and ‘wrap-up’ workshops on UTS campus
  • 2 hours online workshop via Zoom
  • 2-3 hours case study exploration and group work
  • 2-3 hours per week reading and reflection
  • 2-3 hours per week assessments.

The following content will be covered during the course:

  • An introduction to key theories that frame innovation and co-evolution build on, reflective practice and phenomenology
  • Case studies of real-world, intractable issues that have been strategically reframed
  • Introduction to practical tools that will be used by participants to create an innovation strategy in relation to an intractable issue

Week 1: Complexity and Framing

  • Theoretical underpinnings
  • Case study

Week 2: Stakeholders and Values

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Stakeholder interviews

Week 3: Theme Identification

  • Abductive logic and frame innovation
  • Group work to identify values

Week 4: Theme Exploration

  • Phenomenological approaches to understanding
  • Individual and group work on a theme

Week 5: Framing Tools

  • Framing in action
  • Group work to create new frames

Week 6: Emergence

  • Innovation strategy
  • Group presentations

Participants will work collaboratively in teams to apply practices and skills to an intractable issue.

Course learning objectives

In completing this microcredential, participants will have gained experience in:

  • Applying practical tools and approaches to explore an intractable societal issue to generate new frames
  • Generating feasible intervention concepts.

Assessment

Participants will be assessed across the following two assessment tasks during the course:

Task 1

Problem statement - individually assessed (weight: 30%)

  • Participants are required to apply problem framing to a case study, identifying the elements of the case study situation in its current state.

Task 2

Final presentation and report - group work with individually marked components (weight: 70%)

  • Part 1 - Participants are required to present their theme exploration of the case study situation in their group (30%)
  • Part 2 - Submission of an individual reflective learning diary comprises the individually assessed element of this task (40%).

To pass the course, participants must complete all assessments and achieve at least 50% of the course’s total marks.

Requirements

Mandatory

To complete this online course, you will need a personal computer with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing. You will also require an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas.

Desired

There are no required texts for this course, though participants may benefit from the following: Dorst, K., Kaldor, L., Klippan, L. & Watson, R. (2015) Designing for the Common Good.

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows: 

  • UTS alumni/students 10% discount with discount code: TDIalumni 
  • UTS staff 10% discount 

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price. 

How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff discount (UTS staff)

Please contact support@open.uts.edu.au in order to secure your enrolment and 10% staff discount code.

How to apply your discount code 

  • If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number during checkout. If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@utsopen.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.  
  • Add this course to your cart 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open 
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the "Have a discount code?" prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button 
  • Verify your discount code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Checkout" button. 

In-house training or group enrolments 

If you are interested in in-house training opportunities or enrolling five or more people within your organisation, please contact us at td.learning@uts.edu.au

Contact us

For any questions on enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au  

 If you have a specific question on course content or requirements, please td.learning@uts.edu.au

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