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