This document discusses different models for integrating academic fields and cultures to promote innovation: 1. The business school model from Rotman Design Works focuses on salience, causality, architecture, and resolution to consider multiple variables, relationships, and optimal solutions. 2. The design school model examines mood, context, requirements, design solutions, and evaluation through beta-testing. 3. The language and culture model used at Coastline Community College applies brainstorming, role-playing, and alternative strategies to problem-solving in a French course, developing skills like empathy and creativity. The document advocates for approaches that are cross-cultural, cross-generational, and transdisciplinary to drive innovation through integration

1. Innovation through Integration:Crossing Academic and Cultural Lines by Design 1 KA Watson, Coastline CC

2. Innovation through integration Background Theoretical and philosophical (e.g., the “Other”) Practical (e.g., “diversity” dealings) Functional In business In design In language and culture courses 2 KA Watson, Coastline CC

3. Innovation through integration The business school model, Rotman-style Salience Causality Architecture Resolution 3 KA Watson, Coastline CC

4. Innovation through integration Rotman-style “salience” Mental triage, deciding what is/is not relevant Consideration of multiple variables Weighing of numerous options Consideration of consequences KA Watson, Coastline CC 4

5. Innovationthrough integration Rotman-style “causality” Seek and exploration Seek the non-linear Seek the multi-directional Seek interrelationships Seek the “prime cause” KA Watson, Coastline CC 5

6. Innovation through integration Rotman-style “architecture” Model-building Module-building Care to avoid “narrow perfectionism” Backgrounding/foregrounding in turns KA Watson, Coastline CC 6

7. Innovation through integration Rotman-style “resolution” Using challenges as forms of physical tension Using physical tension as impetus to creativity Using problems as aspects of a “messy whole” Moving always toward the optimal KA Watson, Coastline CC 7

8. Innovation through integration The design school model Mood Context Requirements Design solutions Design evaluation 8 KA Watson, Coastline CC

9. Innovation through integration Cottong/Burney-style “mood” “Atmosphere” Transformative thought Creative process-building for innovation Cultural sensitivity KA Watson, Coastline CC 9

10. Innovation through integration Cottong/Burney-style “context” Human: who will use… Practical: what used for…. Significance triage KA Watson, Coastline CC 10

11. Innovation through integration Cottong/Burney-style “requirements” Business needs User goals Responsiveness to business, economics, and humans KA Watson, Coastline CC 11

12. Innovation through integration Cottong/Burney-style “design solutions” First, propose many rough concepts Second, discuss the concepts Third, entertain alternative perspectives of concepts Fourth, foster a feeling of concept “ownership” KA Watson, Coastline CC 12

13. Innovation through integration Cottong/Burney-style “design evaluation” Test alternatives among real users Use “beta-testing” practices Use “quality testing” Evaluate and re-evaluate continuously KA Watson, Coastline CC 13

14. Innovation through integration Language and culture model, Coastline-style Brainstorming Defining a problem Role-playing Applying alternative strategies 14 KA Watson, Coastline CC

15. Innovation through integration Coastline French language/culture-style “problem defining” Determine each learner’s mood Determine preferred learning styles Determine central goal and ancillaries Experiment! KA Watson, Coastline CC 15

16. Innovation through integration Coastline French “role playing” Experimentation Engagement Immersion Argumentation à la française Spherical growth KA Watson, Coastline CC 16

17. Innovation through integration Coastline French “problem-solving alternatives” Empathy development Thought process development Productivity development Creativity development Non-evaluative, transdisciplinary thought development KA Watson, Coastline CC 17

18. Innovationthrough integration is… Cross-cultural, literally and figuratively Cross-generational Transdisciplinary 18 KA Watson, Coastline CC