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Diving into radical creativity

This course offers essential skills for the modern workplace and is ideal for changemakers in all areas of life. You’ll learn why radical creativity is important and how to develop it at the individual, team, and organizational levels. The course covers radical creativity across multidisciplinary fields of innovation, including business, technology, art, and design. Engaging assignments invite you to reflect and participate in real-life activities. By the end of this course, you’ll understand what radical creativity is and know how to apply it.

Schedule:

Continuously ongoing

Teaching time:

Self-paced

Topic:

Creativity and future

Form of learning:

Online

Provider:

Aalto University

Level:

Intermediate

Credits:

3 By Aalto University (ECTS)

Fee:

Free of charge

Application period:

No application needed

Target group and prerequisites

Course is meant for all. It is useful for anyone who wants to be more creative, and for those who lead organizations that aspire to more innovativity. Course also helps changemakers.

Course description

The course is ideal for anyone interested in uncovering the secrets of the creative process and developing their own, their team’s, or their organization’s capacity for innovation, change, and advanced problem-solving skills.

Course topics:

  • Radical creativity for individuals
  • Process of radical creativity
  • Radical creativity in organizations
  • Leading for radical creativity
  • Impact of radical creativity

Learning outcomes:

  • You’ll learn methods for fostering creativity and radical creativity at both individual and organizational levels, along with techniques for leading change.
  • Additionally, the course introduces you to systems thinking and systems change.

The content is science-based and easy to read, featuring topical case studies across technological innovation, arts, design, and multidisciplinary breakthroughs. Engaging assignments encourage both reflection and hands-on exercises.

You can earn 3 study credits and receive a course badge for each of the 5 subsections. Completing 3 study credits is estimated to correspond to about 10 working days.

This free online course can be explored at your own pace and in the order of your interests. It examines why radical creativity is essential at this moment in history and how it drives paradigm-shifting innovations.

Further information and enrolment
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