Engaging the Culture of Social Innovation

People perceive innovation in many ways. Innovation can be one of the ‘heavy-duty’ terms with different interpretation or innovation can also be an exclusive plan for corporate development. In the Department of Landscape Architecture, we define innovation as simple as “ideas that works for the life of our society”. The department has gone through a very challenging year of 2013 especially by incorporating the idea of innovation in landscape teaching and learning. Innovation; the term that gradually gains premium to us since 2011, has been one of the main important factors outlined in our FRSB Transformation Vision 2011-2014 (Ibrahim, R. 2011). Innovation is a global challenge; and implementing it in our department is indeed, a real challenge in UPM. We drive this mission in our curriculum reviews, teaching and learning programs, research and services. The department continues its tradition to elevate the landscape architecture program of UPM into an exceptional level.

 

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