Resilience & Creativity Canvas

The Resilience & Creativity Canvas is part of the Learn-and-Do Kit to Strengthen Resilience through Creativity within Higher Education Institutions, developed at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

The canvas offers role-specific perspectives to reflect on practices at the interplay of resilience and creativity at higher education institutions. It can be used for indivdual reflection or collective reflection processes (e.g. in the context of workshops). Separate canvases are provided for each of the four stakeholder groups: leadership, teaching staff, technical and didactical support.

• Didactical support: If your role includes the translation of teaching goals into workable formats, templates, training, and course design support, download the Didactical Support Canvas.
• Leadership: If your role is closely connected to formal decision making on teaching development at a higher education institution, download the Leadership Canvas.
• Teaching: If your role involves delivering teaching in practice, download the Teaching Canvas.
• Technical support: If your role entails providing and stabilising the technical infrastructure and support teaching depends on, download the Technical Support Canvas.

To provide guidance in answering the questions, we developed four personas and completed the relevant canvases from their perspective. These are also available to download. 

The Learn-and-Do Kit is designed for higher education institutions that aim to initiate a multileveled reflection process on their resilience strengths and vulnerabilities. It supports universities in exploring existing and potential creative practices that can help them strengthen resilience. This is based on an understanding of resilience as a process that goes beyond merely coping with an immediate crisis and includes anticipating crises as well as adapting afterwards. This processual perspective enables a comprehensive view of how resilience and creativity interconnect and how they can be reflected in practice.

A publication by the research projects Organisational Adaptivity in the Higher Education Context (OrA) and Organisational Resilience and Creativity: Exploring the Future of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ORC). Both projects were conducted jointly by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics (CATALPA) at the FernUniversität in Hagen.