Creating Creative Processes
1. Tutorial Title: “Creating Creative Processes: A workshop
demonstrating a methodological approach for subjects between the Sciences and
the Arts”
Carola Boehm, Music Department
& Centre for Art and Design Research and
Sport, Performing Arts and
Leisure,
C.Boehm@wlv.ac.uk Tel.: +44(0)1902 – 323235
The workshop provides
through short exercises brief experiences with a wide variety of distinct forms
of creative processes, geared towards professionals that develop tools for
creative contexts
The series of small exercises,
of which the workshop consists, provide a brief experience with a wide variety
of distinct forms of creative processes by using only the simplest of utensils
(paper, pencils, erasers, coloured pens, squared paper, and pennies).
Disciplines I have drawn upon are music, poetry, art and architecture.
The tutorial/workshop aims
to demonstrate how many neglected alternative exist within the repertoire of
human experience of artistic creation and is aimed at making individuals aware
of the wide diversity of artistic methodology. Consequently participants
experience a greater critical awareness of
There are narrow,
preconceived notions of what types of creative processes are common and
acceptable in their own field. Most individuals, through education and
training, are used to only using the smallest number of creative methodologies
(e.g. improvisational modes for musicians and restrictive modes for scientists)
and are often unaware of the full diversity of creative methodologies. This
narrow view in the "non-digital world" can be seen to be mirrored in
the software tools, as they tend to ignore the full diversity of creative methodology
possible.
The tutorial/workshop is
geared towards professionals that develop tools for creative contexts and also
from by individuals from different disciplines. They can represent both
individuals who are developers and designers of creative technology
applications, and others, who will use them within a creative context. For both
these groups, creativity tends to be important for the working process itself.
0:00 – 0:30 30 min Introductions
and Context
0:30 – 1:30 60 min Exercises
with each having a little explanation at the end
1:30 – 1:45 15 min Break
1:45 – 2:45 60 min Exercises
with each having a little explanation at the end
2:45 – 3:00 15 min Discussion
There is a
lack of ‘explicit education’ of different modes of creativity and different
methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only
art practitioners, but specifically for developers of tools that support
creative processes. The tutorial/workshop, titled “Creating-Creative-Processes”,
will demonstrate how a series of short exercises can provide a brief experience
with a wide variety of distinct forms of creative processes, geared towards
professionals that sit “inbetween” the sciences and the arts. Consequently
participants experience a greater critical awareness of the methodologies and
techniques chosen to create something artistic, the design of tools for
creative productions, the understanding of creative processes in us humans, and
the potential diversity of interaction between software tools and humans in the
process of being creative.
Besides my own
pedagogical methodologies (Music & Computing), I have collated methods from
artistic professionals which have integrated a targeted pedagogical approach to
their teachings, i.e. I have drawn from workshops by Linda Weintraub
(Modern/Emerging Art), Liz Lochhead (Poetry), and Greg Missingham
(Architecture).
This tutorial
consists of a 180 min workshop, demonstrating exercises to initiate creative
processes in practice, and will include the presentation of the context. The
series of small exercises that provide a brief experience with a wide variety
of distinct forms of creative processes use only the simplest of utensils
(paper, pencils, erasers, coloured pens, squared paper, pennies).