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Kalaisan Kalaichelvan: Axioms — second single
New single, featuring Dior Quartet, released 12 July 2024.
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Next book, on practice-based research
Work in progress (just started).
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Kalaisan Kalaichelvan: Hatsuyume — new single
Beautiful new music released on 31 May 2024.
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Pecha Kucha video: ‘Identities, Creativity, Practice, Process and Change’
Lots of things in less than seven minutes.
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Chris E. Vargas launches ‘Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects’
The creator of MOTHA visits to do a keynote!
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Practice-based research is for imagining and exploring
Not for describing what is, it’s for exploring what could be
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A practice-based PhD as a basket of things
Extended discussion of the basket of things approach.
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Practice-based Research – Some new principles
Useful pointers on doing practice-based research.
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New single, ‘Everything or Nothing’, released 21 December 2023
Music “about seeking connection in anxious times”.
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‘Creativity’ audiobook on Spotify and Audible
Creativity insights experienced in aural format.
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Ashley Jane Lewis joins Creativity Everything
Amazing new team member!
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‘Play in the System’ podcast, July 2023
A conversation with Matt Gooderson about creativity and music making.
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Pecha Kucha video: ‘Finding a path through creative practice’
New video with lots of things in less than 7 minutes.
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New video: ‘Creativity Is A Thing That You Do’ (talk + music)
Complete event filmed with three cameras and proper sound and everything!
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New digital single, ‘October (live)’ released 15 March 2023
Recorded live at HQ, Toronto, 8 December 2022.
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Creating a body of work
Considering your creativity as a body of work makes a difference.
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‘Creativity: Seven Keys to Unlock Your Creative Self’ book published!
Paperback: Hardback! E-book! Audiobook! All the formats!
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‘Creativity’ book launch + live music
New book launched with music, diagrams, and other surprises.
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Proximity Effect – Remix + Atmospheres CD package
I do like designing the physical things.
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Proximity Effect – Remix + Atmospheres released 3 October 2022
New single released on Unfolding Records.
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Summer Studio brings together diverse creators
Our first creative summer camp for adult makers, artists and creators.
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Restless EP in fold-out CD digipak
Actual physical product.
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Restless EP released 24 May 2022
New music, on all streaming platforms now.
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Drawing just one line
Extract about minimalism from my new book ‘Creativity’.
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‘Creativity: Seven keys to unlock your creative self’ book finished!
Three years in the making! Out in November 2022.
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Is this the way to the creativity theory?
Aren’t most of the things that people call creativity ‘theory’ just creativity description?
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Practice-based research: A simple explainer
A new straightforward explanation.
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Our Innovation Studio is not what you think
Doing innovation in a better way.
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On ‘ungrading’ in a creativity course
The statement on ‘ungrading’ from my syllabus.
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KMRU on creativity (video + transcript)
Interview with the prolific electronic and ambient music producer.
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On rankings, grades . . . and actual experiences
Rankings, grades and online performance scores don’t reflect reality – but the problem is much worse than that.
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Seven amazing Connection Fellows announced
Selected from 170 incredible applicants!
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The Black Mosaic – into the summer
The project supporting Black creators continues!
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Micro LEGO Serious Play – with pandas – on Zoom
Talking about creativity with Amanda, Heather and Stedman, using Lego.
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Panic Girl interviewed about creativity, music and DIY
Inspiring ideas and advice.
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Connection Fellowships launched
Support for BIPOC creators in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Do *I* do practice-based research?
In which I work out whether I am a practice-based researcher.
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What is practice-based research?
I wanted a straightforward introduction to practice-based research. So I wrote one.
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‘Creativity’ book: How it’s going
Book progress! It’s actually going quite well.
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‘Advice for Emerging Researchers’ video
If you’re a PhD student or an early-ish-career academic, here is a video.
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A music challenge for myself
I asked my students to do a project across the term, and so I’m doing it too.
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The Black Mosaic – a new initiative
Supporting Black creators in the Toronto area.
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Further Creativity Conversations – mentoring and support
Now offered free of charge – advice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects.
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Your Creative Self 2020 intro video + music
I put a lot of work into this one!
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Less is more? (The music-making journey continues)
A new music track. Trying not to throw in too much. Failing.
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New Zoom series: ‘Making it Happen’ on Fridays
Recommissioned for a second Artscape Launchpad series!
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Creativity Conversations – mentoring and support
Advice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects. All proceeds to Black Lives Matter Toronto.
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New video on ‘identity’ for UK A and AS Level students
Trying to help out those UK students who have to write about ‘Gauntlett’ on ‘identity’.
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Getting somewhere (more music)
Progress in the music department.
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Weekly free creativity workshops on Zoom
Free online workshops, hosted by Artscape Launchpad.
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Collected observations on making music
Thoughts on music-making, all in one place.
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The 10,000 hours rule (or: Can I really not be good at music until I am 108?)
What does it mean, “10,000 hours” to master something?
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Learning from the music-making process
On getting useful feedback.
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Creativity Everything podcast launched!
It’s an obvious idea . . . but that’s not going to stop us!
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Creativity is a thing you do
What we are talking about when we talk about creativity.
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‘Your Creative Self’ workshop at Artscape Launchpad
And in a new team-up with Jodianne Beckford!
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A Drawing A Day – June to pause, 2019
The last drawings before we went on a drawings pause.
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The ‘dappled world’ and a more diverse perspective
A nicer way of looking.
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Hours of ‘The Creative Process’ lecture videos
Lots of lectures drop at once, like on Netflix, except, lectures.
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Research, teaching and everything all interconnected
It all fits together. It’s all one thing.
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Ways to kill creativity, no. 93: Turn it into a ‘discipline’
I worked out why I don’t want to be in their bubble.
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Seeking an art-school ethos for my classroom
On the proper form of a university course
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A Drawing A Day – May to June 2019
More drawings.
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Creativity Everything #FreeSchool exceeds all expectations
The #FreeSchool was a delightful and diverse success!
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Origins of the #FreeSchool
Where did we nick this idea from?
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Imagination as ideas, empathy and yearning
Is imagination the same as creativity?
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Creativity Everything #FreeSchool announced
Two weeks of creative everything, open to everyone, running 21–31 May 2019.
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A Drawing A Day – February to April 2019
More drawings.
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Canada Research Chair priorities and plans
Establishing what to do and what not to do.
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An Experimental Culture of All Kinds of Things Made by Everybody
This was going to be my next book, but then it wasn’t.
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‘Your Creative Self’ course – hello insights!
New course I’m teaching at Ryerson University.
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Creativity Everything website launched
Launch of new website for new lab!
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A Drawing A Day – December 2018 & January 2019
Into the new year with more drawings.
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New short video(s) of ‘Creativity Everything’ talk
Choice of 7-min and 12-min brisk videos on new stuff.
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A Drawing A Day – October & November 2018
Now up to 803 drawings. Featuring the usual leaves, trees, mugs, seagulls… and leaping beyond the gloom.
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‘Creativity Everything’ talk at The Power Plant, Toronto
Free event! 15 November 2018.
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Elegant workshop process at Artscape Launchpad
A nice simple workshop that works.
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A Drawing A Day – September 2018
More drawings.
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A Drawing A Day – August 2018
A fresh new batch.
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From the archives: Media Studies 2.0
This was quite contentious, eleven years ago.
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New course anxieties and two solutions
It’s all about what happens in the room.
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A Drawing A Day restarts after 3,185-day pause
Return of the drawing project which previously ran 2004-09.
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Toronto Maker Festival workshop
Maker identities workshop.
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Video from ‘Making is Connecting’ Second Edition launch
New 33-minute talk.
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Book launch and talk, Toronto, 26 June 2018
Free event at Artscape Sandbox.
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Two-minute video about new book
A short introduction to the new book.
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Research theme #3: Public understanding of creative practice
The third of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
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Research theme #2: Creative identities and leadership
The second of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
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Research theme #1: Platforms for creativity
The first of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
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New Canada research plans and activities
My Canada Research Chair seven-year plan.
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DIY academia
On self-reliance – a piece that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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Free preview: Making is Connecting introduction
New stuff from new book, free, online, right now.
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Deleted section: ‘Some imagined futures’
Rescued from the bin – a ‘deleted scene’ from Making is Connecting.
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Helpful people: A guide for researchers
Another in the unexpectedly long series of articles for Funding Insight magazine.
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Your creative self (course)
A new course I’m offering at Ryerson University, Toronto.
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The rise of the entrepreneurial academic
Making things happen. An article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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Toronto: new beginnings
A new job at Ryerson University. Locals are invited to say hi.
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Nearly here: Making is Connecting, Second edition
Fully revised, with three new chapters! And pink!
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The researcher’s backpack
Another ‘advice’ article for aspiring researchers, that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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News from me: Hello Canada!
I’ve got a new job at Ryerson University, Toronto, starting in January.
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‘Theories of identity’ in the new Media Studies A & AS Level
Resource for Media Studies teachers.
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BFI Media Conference and me on the National Curriculum
On the National Curriculum: ‘both pleasing and weird’.
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Public speaking for academics
Another ‘advice’ article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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William Morris, making things, Kickstarter, and LEGO
Inspiration for makers.
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Social media for academics
An article of ‘advice’ that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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Do things and see what happens: music-making, creativity and collaboration
Reflections after a day in the studio with Matt Gooderson.
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‘Being creative’ at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
New diagram of creativity. Public lecture, workshop and more.
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Making music (2): Reflections
Some thoughts on the creative experience of music-making.
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Making music (1): Introduction / overview
On me making music. Don’t worry, you don’t actually have to listen to any.
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The Ambassador will see you now
They shouldn’t give me flattering titles like this.
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Unsolicited advice on your academic career
Another article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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Research methods as a site of dynamic innovation
An article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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My TEDx talk, ‘Building platforms for creativity’
From TEDxUmeå. It’s now online.
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Stairway to impact
Introducing my ‘staircase’ model of impact, which was devised to show researchers how they can achieve research ‘impact’.
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The Rotherhithe Shed – video
The video they made when I visited the Shed.
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Countdown to TEDx Umeå, part two
I made a one-minute intro video in a Danish forest.
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The Rotherhithe Shed – making is connecting in South London
I visited a workshop where older men work together, making things.
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New 7-minute Making Media Studies cut-down video
Less is more.
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Digital DIY and ‘creative society’
Our part of the European project gets under way.
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Countdown to TEDx Umeå, part one
15 weeks of planning for 18 minutes of talking starts here.
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Making Media Studies video
A whole 32 minute video with an annoying computer voice asking me questions.
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Job opportunity: Digital DIY researcher
A job advert! I really do need to find someone great for this. Please help. Deadline is 22 November 2015.
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Chicago: Libraries as platforms for creativity, day two
The second day of my Chicago trip, including my talk and workshop.
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Chicago: Libraries as platforms for creativity, day one
I visited Chicago Public Library System, where they are rethinking libraries as places of making and exchange.
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Making meaningful connections … and the future of universities
University education as conversations, inspirations, making things happen.
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Making Things workshop, with LEGO Minecraft, and music, in a library
A workshop on making things physically and digitally. Plus an argument for responsive, unobtrusive research.
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Achieving REF-able ‘impact’ in the arts and humanities
Also written for Funding Insight magazine. Ignore this post if you happen to be oblivious to UK academic worries about ‘the REF’ – lucky you.
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Writing a successful funding application in the arts and humanities
An article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
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Milan makerspaces
The #DiDIY team enjoyed informative and inspiring visits to WeMake and OpenDot in Milan.
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Platforms for Creativity: Eight principles revisited
Newer, tidier version of my ‘eight principles’ piece, which can be read alongside my new blog post ‘Platforms for Creativity: Introduction’.
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Platforms for Creativity: Introduction
Explaining what I mean when I talk about ‘platforms for creativity’.
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Chicago ‘Platforms for Creativity’ event featuring all-new tinkerbox workshop concept
Chicago event on 23 September 2015.
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Museums and libraries as platforms for creativity
What happened when I went to the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.
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The most important thing is making meaningful connections
On meaningful connections rather than frictionless content.
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Research Through Design #RTD2015 reflected in LEGO
From an amazing conference in Cambridge.
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Making Media Studies – 2‑minute intro video
New video about new book.
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Digital Folk – launch event, 1 April 2015
An exciting free event in London.
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What is Digital DIY? – part two
We’re still working on it.
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What is Digital DIY?
Some starter thoughts about our EU-funded project.
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Storify summary of ‘Platforms for Creativity’ events
Pictures, tweets and blog posts from the Dundee events.
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Dundee event: Platforms for Creativity
A talk and a workshop about creativity with Amy Twigger Holroyd, on 29 January 2015.
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Open Access: Articles by me about everyday creativity, making, and digital media
Things by me that you can read for free.
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Collaborating with businesses and organisations for research
Part two of the two-part series on collaborations.
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Building collaborative relationships for research
An article on collaborations I wrote for ‘Research Professional’.
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Digital DIY – new EU funded project
New project starts in early 2015.
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At the World Innovation Summit for Education, WISE 2014
On the importance of play, for everyone.
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De Chocoladefabriek Gouda – Making is Connecting in action
Reinventing the library, in an old chocolate factory.
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Why ‘share’ and ‘sharing’ are often the wrong words
More thoughts on inappropriate words.
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Never said ‘prosumer’ in my life
I don’t like made-up words.
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Technology and learning – panel discussion with Ashoka and LEGO Foundation
Video of a Google Hangout.
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Making Media Studies: book finished and blurb done
I finished writing my new book!
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Micro LEGO Serious Play: How small can a useful tool for thinking be?
Can you do LEGO Serious Play with just 37 pieces?
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Making Media Studies: What kinds of knowledge do we need now?
Extract from crowdsourced interview in my new book.
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What do you know about?
Final post in the self-reflective four-part series.
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Some things that I like to emphasise
…that people in my kind of field don’t always emphasise. Part 3 of the 4-part series.
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What I’m trying to work out
What can I usefully do? Part 2 in a series of 4.
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What’s the point of you again?
What am I trying to do? Part 1 of a 4-part series.
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Making Media Studies: Extract from new book
What is ‘The creativity turn in media and communications studies’?
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Infographics!
Wordy conversations turned into graphic graphics!
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Questions please, for new crowdsourced interview
Send me a question please!
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Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #3: On small steps
Last in the series.
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Digital Folk – new project
New AHRC funded research.
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Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #2: On sustainability
Number two in the series of three.
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Playful creative learning: adults first
The cart before the horse.
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Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #1: On design, and systems
First in a series of three!
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Media Studies 2.0: a whole new book!
A good book.
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Actually doing the thing
Hands-on making.
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‘Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change’ full video
New old long video.
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Previously unpublished ‘Making is Connecting’ opening
Featuring William Morris and Martin Creed.
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MTWMAM#6: Process and pieces
Contributed by Kay Steven.
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MTWMAM#5: Knitted paper sock
Contributed by Megan McPherson.
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MTWMAM#4: Introvert avatar
Contributed by VK.
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MTWMAM#3: ‘I am a maker’
Contributed by Gemma Latham.
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MTWMAM#2: Embroidery for Janice
Contributed by Anne Liddon.
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MTWMAM#1C: Nature in the home
Contributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
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MTWMAM#1B: Kitchen collage
Contributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
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MTWMAM#1A: Paper stars
Contributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
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Making is Connecting in Korean
Am I dreaming?
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Six theses about making things in a digital world
A new article by me.
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Maker Faire videos
Videos from New York and Rome.
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My foreword to ‘New Noise’ by Simon Lindgren
An interesting book.
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Making, DIY, and disrupting the professionals
An interview with Zoe Romano.
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Countdown to the Maker Faires
New York! Rome! Exciting!
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Systems for unpredictable creativity
On creating a ‘climate of possibility’.
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Building the future of Parliament
From March 2009: on political participation.
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LEGO Cultures of Creativity report launched today
From my collaboration with the LEGO Foundation.
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Tools for thinking: Introduction
Introduction to an ongoing theme.
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‘Making is Connecting’, Richard Sennett and my dad
From May 2011: after a Radio 4 programme.
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Building platforms for creativity: Eight principles
From April 2012: eight core principles.
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Digital transformations and open access
From May 2012: on ‘publish, then filter’ and more.
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A tale of two books
From May 2012: how I made my own Kindle book.
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Hello! New site, new blog
A new website and a new blog.
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