2019-2020 / MICA0010-1

Creativity initiation

Duration

8h Th, 4h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in innovation management and the food design (120 ECTS)1 crédit 

Lecturer

Dorothée Goffin

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- Definition of creativity
- Creativity vs Innovation
- Why creativity
- How to avoid the pitfalls of creativity:
- The creative process: a constructed approach and defined objectives
- Definition of the framework and the problem
- The motivating question
- The place of neuroscience in the creative process
- Koestler's Bissociation and Inductors
- Organization of a brainstorming session and rules of conduct
- Process of the creative process
- Creative problem solving method, divergence and convergence phase
- The TRIZ method
- Thinking design, collaborative innovation

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- Understand issues related to innovation and creativity
- Understand the parameters influencing the creative potential
Understand the creative process via neuroscience
- Know how to define a problem, a framework and a motivating question
- Master creative methodologies and know how to implement a creative process
- To be able to lead a creative session
- Know how to put oneself in a creative posture

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

-16h theoretical course - 8h of practical course

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

- Presence required at different sessions - Group work, synthesis of the creative session

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Dorothée Goffin
Smart Gastronomy Lab
dorothee.goffin@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The brainstorming session, being the last session of the course, has been organised online using the Padlet application.

Assessment subjects

The subject of the evaluation stay the same, that is the group work as well as the video presenting the best idea generated.

Assessment methods

Evaluation of the group work and video of presentation

Contacts

dorothée.goffin@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts