Diving into Radical Creativity

Diving into

Radical creativity drives innovation and transformation. We all need it to navigate and thrive in a world full of complex challenges and uncertainty. This course will teach you the key mindsets and skills to use radical creativity as a tool for creating change—whether you're in business, the arts, or technology.

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Diving into Radical Creativity MOOC is freely available to anyone, from professionals in different fields to students and life-wide learners. Just register and start exploring!

Gain credits or explore freely

You can jump into the course anywhere you like and work through the sections you’re interested in. You’ll get study badges for completing chapters. The complete course is worth 3 study credits, which you can get by finishing a minimum of 5 chapter introductions and 15 sub-chapters.

Peek inside an innovative university

This course will take you deep into the world of Aalto University, where we bring together business and hard science with art and design, where the practices of radical creativity and the ambition to change the world are guiding norms. You’ll meet researchers, designers, lab managers and students, and get a glimpse of the creative life at many different levels.

Diverse activities

Interesting activities will challenge you to unlock your creativity through reading, listening, watching videos, and exploring case studies. Activate your thinking through quizzes and assignments, and apply your creativity in hands-on activities.

Learning outcomes

Build knowledge and skills in radical creativity

  • Recognize and develop the ability to take risks, cope with uncertainty, and keep going in the face of the unknown as you build a creative identity. Gain the self-confidence to develop new ideas, experiment, and learn from failures.

  • Get an understanding of the dynamics between the individual, team and community in multidisciplinary collaborations. See how radical creativity can have a huge impact in different areas. 

  • Radical creativity can reshape the world by driving novelty and innovation, and creating important paradigm shifts. Discover your path to radical creativity!

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Practice-led design research professor, Maarit Mäkelä, looking into the horizon in front of a frozen lake and snowy mountains of Lapland.

Learning experience

Take your own path to radical creativity

  • The course is non-linear, so you can customize your experience. Browse the content freely in any order and explore whatever topic you like.

  • There will be 5 chapters: introduction, individual, process, collective and impact. Each chapter contains five subchapters. You can read as many as you want, in any order.

  • Complete the assignments to get badges and credits. There are quizzes, personal reflections, case studies and real-life exercises. Use the opportunity to open your mind and reflect!

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Contemporary design professor, Julia Lohmann, working in her workshop filled with objects made from wood and seaweed.

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