In our complex and interconnected world, change is happening quickly and revealing new and often ‘wicked’ problems that require creative solutions. IDEAS (Innovation, Design, Engineering, Art, Science) is a year, multidisciplinary course designed to equip students with the skills and confidence to grapple with these problems. IDEAS is about the 21st century skills of creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. It’s about mindsets like empathy, optimism and experimentation. IDEAS is about design thinking to listen and observe, define, ideate, prototype, seek feedback, resolve, present and communicate. Students engage in increasingly complex real-world challenges and are encouraged to develop their own unique responses.
The course incorporates the foundation for future studies in Digital and Design Technologies. Specialist technologies include:
Students explore United Nations Sustainability Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
Provocation 1: Power to the PEOPLE
How might we use food waste to create new and innovative products?
Provocation 2: Power to the PLANET
How might we repurpose textiles waste to prevent additional items going to landfill?
This unit focuses on United Nations Sustainability Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.
Provocation 1: Power to the PEOPLE
How can we integrate a wireless charging station into a commercial situation so that it is beneficial to customers and the business?
Provocation 2: Power to the PLANET
How might we be more efficient in the use of e-material and in particular the use of charging cables for phones and tablets?
Project folios, practical prototypes, exam response to stimulus, and multimodal pitches.
Mrs Natalle Sutton
nsutton@mfac.edu.au
