IGNITE:
Design Thinking and Making in Arts and Sciences
IGNITE, funded by Creative Europe: Media, draws together several disparate shifts in recent education policy and research: online education, digitally-enhanced learning methods, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the turn in humanities education from theory to method. These shifts form the design axis in IGNITE, going beyond the provision of traditional academic competences by bridging knowledge, theories, and skills through a range of creative, problem solving techniques. A key impact of IGNITE is to meld design thinking methods through the ethos of Maker Culture. It does this through real-world case studies and scenarios from the cultural and creative sectors by integrating software, tools, and methods with analysis from the arts and humanities. IGNITE courses will be released during the spring/summer 2020. IGNITE Website