Cluster: Public Agency Cluster

Competence: Boundary Spanner

Module title: The Creative Professional as a Bridge Builder in Complex Societal Challenges

ECTS credit points: 2

Workload in hours: 50

EQF-level: 5

Course Objective

This module is aimed at creatives who want to be able to use their creativity and/or artistry to build bridges and have an impact in different and more complex contexts (creative boundary spanning). Participants will develop skills to be able to improve their different boundary-spanning roles. This means they will be more effective as creative in non-creative contexts, can influence different types of stakeholders, and improve their narrative. They can also purposely design and implement creative boundary objects; a creative way of influencing others or the process.

Description

The cluster public agency structures the course consisting of five different modules, each of them corresponding to the development of a specific competence.The five competences have been predefined in co-creation with the rest of the Consortium. Each of the modules will have ten lessons that are being planned to be taught in a face-to-face situation of learning groups of no more than 25 learners. 

Modules & Key Topics

• Module 1 – Managing Transformations
• Module 2 – Creative Boundary Spanner
• Module 3 – Narrative Design
• Module 4 – Working with Values
• Module 5 – Anticipatory Innovation