ArtIST Winter School 2021
Innovation, Creativity and Arts (ICA)

This year, the course Innovation, Creativity and Arts (ICA) is organized online in several sessions between Feb 16th and March 25th, 2021.

If you are interested in arts and creativity for innovation and technology management, you will definitely benefit from this course!

Course Program

At the Innovation, Creativity, and Arts course we discuss creative approaches to technology and innovation management in form of workshops and interactive classes both with university professors and practitioners from creative industries.

Course aims

• To get students familiar with the complexity and variety of innovation management in modern industry, while transferring approaches and techniques from creativity and art domains.
• To enlarge the students’ mindset on imagination, perseverance, observation, and risk-taking through the use of specific artistic approaches.
• To improve both employability and student engagement, creativity, innovation, divergent thinking, and transdisciplinary problem-solving skills.

The topics of the course include, but are not limited to:

• From STEM to STEAM – what does this mean? STEAM approach refers to the integration of Arts into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) subjects teaching. It is getting more and more popular in European Union in recent years;
• Innovation and Innovation Management – latest developments;
• Creativity techniques, design thinking, pirate thinking;
• Co-Creation or why inventing together makes all partners stronger;
• IPR & legal issues;
• Workshops “Meet the Artist” with inventors, musicians, augmented reality entrepreneurs, and fashion industry experts;
• Workshops on theatre, visual arts, and music and their impact on innovation management.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, participants receive a certificate and 5 ECTS. Students will receive several assignments during the course and need to submit a final report and video after the course.