The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) is the University of Technology Sydney's (UTS) most award-winning degree. It's designed to supplement a core degree and can't be completed alone. Hence, each BCII cohort is made up of around 150 students across 26 disciplines. We mostly learn together, in a large collaborative lecture space, but also break off into smaller tutorial for focused learning. Every subject, we're briefed by a different industry partner with a 'wicked problem' to research and 'solve' over a 2-12 week sprint. We're allocated into groups of 5-7 students from a mix of disciplines (e.g. business, IT, communications, science). Aided by the design theories and methods we're exposed to throughout the course, we work through each challenge space to develop insights and recommendations that culminate in a final presentation back to the industry partners and academic team. BCII champions 'out-of-the-box' thinking, collaboration, creativity and innovation for good.
Key features:
Intensive (2-12 week sprints, comparable to design sprints hosted at Silicon Valley)
Transdisciplinary (working in teams of 5-7 students, across 26 disciplines)
Future-focussed (‘preparing you for jobs that don’t exist yet')
Practical & Professional (we've engaged with 7 professional partners across 7 industries to tackle their challenge briefs)
Subversive (abstract methods, unconventional teaching, promotes experimentation and play)
Bem Le Hunte, Founder of BCII
Strengthened by my background in Media Arts & Writing.
Narrative-construction
Storytelling
Audience-engagement
Message-framing
Informed by the past, excited by the future.
Entrepreneurship
Problem-solving
Experimentation
Future-thinking
I’m a team player at heart.
Community engagement
Presentation & pitching
Transdisciplinary experience
Organisation & project management
Challenge Space: Disability / Employment / Education
Question: How might organisations like Life Without Barriers support people with disability to move from learning into work, without placing the burden of change solely on the individual?
Challenge Space: Start Ups / Pollution / Sustainability / Local Gov
Question: How Might We remove invisible pollutants at the source so that festival organisers and local councils can proactively minimise their environmental impact?
Challenge Space: Disaster Relief / Regional Australia / First Nations
Question: How might we engage Australian rural communities through co-designed, region-specific support strategies to inspire system-wide resilience to climate change in the face of communication breakdowns during disasters?
Challenge Space: AI / Small Business / Automation
Question: How might we enable Australia’s Small & Medium Business retailers to thrive in an AI mediated future where AI agents – not consumers – make the decisions?