This course aims to develop your creativity. Creativity is a state that we all have, children are naturally creative, but when we get older this natural creativity often disappears. But creativity is a deeply human ability and not only for artist or writers. Also engineers, designers, teachers, needs to be creative in their profession and everyday life in order to solve problems and express ourselves. Now more than an ever we need to be creative and innovative in order to solve the grand challenges in front of us. We need to see possibilities and not only problems, to cooperate and co-create new solutions.
In this course we will explore the very source of creativity in you, but also what stops and hinders it and what you can do do develop your creativity. We will explore different aspects of creativity, the history, different phases and what flow is. You will get tools to create and perform a creative workshop. The course concists of exercises, discussions, films, and individual assignments.
Course memo Spring 2022
Course presentation
Headings denoted with an asterisk ( * ) is retrieved from the course syllabus version Autumn 2021
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Different aspects of creativity will be explored, and different technologies and tools are presented to develop creativity.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the students should be able to:
- account for different aspects of creativity and why creativity is needed
- explain what hinders and what enhances creativity at an individual level and in groups and in organisations.
- be able to use different methods and tools to develop creativity
- develop and lead a creative workshop
Learning activities
The course consist of eight seminars, that each have a diffrent theme. In the seminars we explore the theme with exercises, group discussions, lectures and videos from internationelly renowned speakers in the field. You will document your learnings and thoughts from the different teaching activities in a notebook, that becomes your own resorce book for creativity. Each week there is anew assignment that you will do until next week. We start the seminar by sharing the results and experiences from the assignment.
At the end of the course, you will plan a creative workshop and hold it for your classmates.
Preparations before course start
Specific preparations
Prepare by ordering the books so that you have them when the course starts. Come to the course with an open mind.
Literature
Big Magic:How to live a creative life and let go of your fear,
By Elisabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury publishing 2016, paperback, ISBN10 1408866757
Creative confidence:unleaching the creative potential within us all,
By Tom Kelley and David Kelley, William Collins publisher, Paperback 2015, ISBN10 0008139385
Support for students with disabilities
Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:
Examination and completion
Grading scale
P, F
Examination
- INL1 - Hand in exercise, 1.0 credits, Grading scale: P, F
- PRO1 - Project, 2.0 credits, Grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Particpation at seminars, minimum 80%.
Approved home assignments and exercises.
The section below is not retrieved from the course syllabus:
Hand in exercise ( INL1 )
Project ( PRO1 )
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
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Contacts
Round Facts
Start date
21 Mar 2022
Course offering
- Spring 2022-60731
Language Of Instruction
English