Global business and digital media both represent complex environments where innovation and design needs to address whole system perspectives and engage stakeholders from multiple disciplines and perspectives. Whole system methodologies such as future search, appreciative inquiry, and scenario planning offer methodologies for the integration of lay and expert judgements and data. This course will introduce students to the perspectives and methodologies that allow them to work more easily across multiple cultures, disciplines, and markets. We will explore how different disciplines/organizational functions embed or code data, how they construct knowledge, and what tools we employ to bridge or reintegrate knowledge sets in the interests of resolving “whole system” problems. [Note: Offered at Stratford campus.] Prereq: Level at least 3A Global Business and Digital Arts students
