Creative purpose

Creative Connectivity: The Purpose of Thought

Thinking with a New Purpose: Lessons Learned from Teaching Design Thinking Skills to Creative Technology Students

This paper reports on the insights gained from introducing Design Thinking into the final year of a UK university course where students created positive behavior change interventions. The rationale for course design and teaching process is outlined, with a discussion of design as an engineering process versus an innovation process. The students followed Stanford University’s d.school 5-step app...

Creative teachers and creative teaching

What are the key features of creative teachers’ pedagogical practice and just how do teachers teach creatively and teach for creativity, thus fostering children’s creative learning? This chapter seeks to respond to these questions putting forward a three-dimensional model in which creative practice is seen as a product of the dynamic interplay between the teacher’s personal qualities, the pedag...

Creative Therapy and Creative Drama

4^ .our view "Creative Therapy" never can be a matter of "creative techbe nulVes"Every technique can be used creatively, and every technique can s0rJP?^ed. Let us take an example. The technique of fingerpainting is for and Sf PeoP'e refreshing, innovating, stimulating and capable of evoking a new Qnu, i Vourable development. However, the horn over for a number of years. The reason for this is c...

From Creative Economy to Creative Society

Public policy promoting the creative economy has two serious flaws: one, a misperception of culture and creativity as a product of individual genius rather than collective activity; and, two, a willingness to tolerate social dislocation in exchange for urban vitality or competitive advantage. This brief recaps current culture and revitalization research and policy and proposes a new model—a nei...