BEI2766 · Shaping futures

Overview

Shaping futures invites you to imagine what could be and to give form to new responses through experimentation, iteration, and collaboration. This unit focuses on creative development: how to move from insight to intervention, and from complex questions to thoughtful, tested possibilities. You’ll explore techniques like ideation, prototyping, co-design, visualisation, and storytelling to shape ideas in ways that are tangible, inclusive, and open to change. Whether working independently or in teams, you’ll learn how to think through making - to learn by trying, testing, and refining. Imagination here involves play, but serious play. You’ll engage with real-world constraints, stakeholder needs, and ethical concerns, using creativity not to escape complexity but to work within it. You'll focus on crafting responses that are imaginative and grounded, with careful attention to their impact on people, communities, environments, and other living systems. Shaping futures builds the creative confidence and resilience needed to explore the unknown, navigate uncertainty, and develop ideas that can be carried forward, with others, into settings where leadership and innovation are needed most.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate understanding of creative methods and iterative approaches for shaping responses to complex challenges
2. apply techniques such as ideation, prototyping, co-design, and storytelling to explore and refine possible interventions
3. use experimentation and feedback processes to develop inclusive, tangible, and context-aware solutions
4. integrate ethical, social, and environmental considerations into the creative development of ideas
5. reflect on the role of imagination, collaboration, and risk-taking in developing leadership and innovation capabilities.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.