CREATIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Overview of the Creative Leadership Program

The purpose of this program is to develop advanced design talent in four key areas: design, art, business, and leadership. The program aims to develop human resources that can exercise creative cognitive abilities to conceptualize long-term visions for society and culture, propose values based on a deep understanding of humans and the environment, empathize and cooperate with diverse individuals to socially implement those values, and carry out innovative projects. This program is jointly managed by the Graduate School of Design, the Kyushu University Graduate School Economics Industrial Management course (Kyushu University Business School [QBS])and Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University (QREC).

System of operation

The Graduate School of Design will contribute to the development of such abilities in areas related to creativity as represented by design/art. Meanwhile, the development of abilities in areas of business management will be realized through collaboration with the Kyushu University Graduate School Economics Industrial Management course (Kyushu University Business School [QBS]), and the development of abilities pertaining to entrepreneurship will be realized through collaboration with Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University (QREC).

PBL (Problem-Based Learning, Project-­Based Learning)

Project-based learning (PBL) activities

In PBL projects, learners gain hands-on, practical experience in creating new services and products that lead to solutions to problems faced by society and businesses. The program adopts two forms of projects: PBL projects that are managed chiefly by the Course of Strategic Design and carried out in collaboration with outside organizations in the public and private sectors, and PBL projects in which students actively strive to turn their works into sustainable projects by submitting them to competitions related to architecture ,digital art and sustainable development goals.