2025
- 31 March 2025 : Pecha Kucha video: When is making music ‘research-creation’?Six minutes 40 seconds on practice-based research and how you know when it is happening.
- 9 January 2025 : What is ‘rigour’ in practice-based research?In which we establish that practice-based research is just as 'rigorous' as anything else.
2024
- 18 December 2024 : Out now! ‘Creating with Nature’ cardsBeautiful new publication! We kept it a secret until the ship had crossed the Atlantic.
- 18 November 2024 : ‘Sculpture Projects – Tracks + Influences’ playlist showcases key works54 audio delights.
- 15 November 2024 : October (remix) single released 15 November 2024Even more music for fall 2024.
- 20 October 2024 : Music launch event for ‘Everybody…’ EP, 24 October 2024In conversation with Ashley Jane Lewis.
- 19 October 2024 : Deluxe CD digipak for ‘Everybody…’ EPA delightful physical product.
- 18 October 2024 : Four-track ‘Everybody…’ EP released 24 October 2024New music on streaming and CD.
- 12 October 2024 : Reframing Creativity final report is publishedSSHRC-funded project on how creative people adapt in challenging times.
- 4 October 2024 : Kalaisan Kalaichelvan: Golconda — beautiful seven-track EP releasedOut on 4 October 2024 on Unfolding Records
- 10 September 2024 : Unpacking queer abstraction with Francisco-Fernando GranadosA revealing interview with the artist.
- 12 July 2024 : Kalaisan Kalaichelvan: Axioms — second singleNew single, featuring Dior Quartet, released 12 July 2024.
- 18 June 2024 : Next book, on practice-based researchWork in progress (just started).
- 3 June 2024 : Kalaisan Kalaichelvan: Hatsuyume — new singleBeautiful new music released on 31 May 2024.
- 20 February 2024 : Pecha Kucha video: ‘Identities, Creativity, Practice, Process and Change’Lots of things in less than seven minutes.
- 1 February 2024 : Chris E. Vargas launches ‘Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects’The creator of MOTHA visits to do a keynote!
- 22 January 2024 : Practice-based research is for imagining and exploringNot for describing what is, it's for exploring what could be
- 8 January 2024 : Conversation with Justine Woods and Francisco-Fernando Granados on practice-based researchNew article!
- 7 January 2024 : A practice-based PhD as a basket of thingsExtended discussion of the basket of things approach.
- 3 January 2024 : Practice-based Research – Some new principlesUseful pointers on doing practice-based research.
2023
- 21 December 2023 : New single, ‘Everything or Nothing’, released 21 December 2023Music "about seeking connection in anxious times".
- 10 November 2023 : ‘Creativity’ audiobook on Spotify and AudibleCreativity insights experienced in aural format.
- 1 October 2023 : Ashley Jane Lewis joins Creativity EverythingAmazing new team member!
- 14 July 2023 : ‘Play in the System’ podcast, July 2023A conversation with Matt Gooderson about creativity and music making.
- 31 March 2023 : Pecha Kucha video: ‘Finding a path through creative practice’New video with lots of things in less than 7 minutes.
- 28 March 2023 : New video: ‘Creativity Is A Thing That You Do’ (talk + music)Complete event filmed with three cameras and proper sound and everything!
- 15 March 2023 : New digital single, ‘October (live)’ released 15 March 2023Recorded live at HQ, Toronto, 8 December 2022.
- 5 March 2023 : Creating a body of workConsidering your creativity as a body of work makes a difference.
2022
- 14 December 2022 : ‘Creativity: Seven Keys to Unlock Your Creative Self’ book published!Paperback: Hardback! E-book! Audiobook! All the formats!
- 12 December 2022 : ‘Creativity’ book launch + live musicNew book launched with music, diagrams, and other surprises.
- 4 October 2022 : Proximity Effect – Remix + Atmospheres CD packageI do like designing the physical things.
- 3 October 2022 : Proximity Effect – Remix + Atmospheres released 3 October 2022New single released on Unfolding Records.
- 31 July 2022 : Summer Studio brings together diverse creatorsOur first creative summer camp for adult makers, artists and creators.
- 1 June 2022 : Restless EP in fold-out CD digipakActual physical product.
- 24 May 2022 : Restless EP released 24 May 2022New music, on all streaming platforms now.
- 13 March 2022 : Drawing just one lineExtract about minimalism from my new book 'Creativity'.
- 12 March 2022 : ‘Creativity: Seven keys to unlock your creative self’ book finished!Three years in the making! Out in November 2022.
- 2 February 2022 : Is this the way to the creativity theory?Aren't most of the things that people call creativity 'theory' just creativity description?
- 12 January 2022 : Practice-based research: A simple explainerA new straightforward explanation.
- 11 January 2022 : Our Innovation Studio is not what you thinkDoing innovation in a better way.
- 4 January 2022 : On ‘ungrading’ in a creativity courseThe statement on 'ungrading' from my syllabus.
2021
- 8 October 2021 : KMRU on creativity (video + transcript)Interview with the prolific electronic and ambient music producer.
- 11 August 2021 : On rankings, grades . . . and actual experiencesRankings, grades and online performance scores don't reflect reality – but the problem is much worse than that.
- 1 July 2021 : Seven amazing Connection Fellows announcedSelected from 170 incredible applicants!
- 21 June 2021 : The Black Mosaic – into the summerThe project supporting Black creators continues!
- 19 June 2021 : Micro LEGO Serious Play – with pandas – on ZoomTalking about creativity with Amanda, Heather and Stedman, using Lego.
- 19 May 2021 : Panic Girl interviewed about creativity, music and DIYInspiring ideas and advice.
- 28 April 2021 : Connection Fellowships launchedSupport for BIPOC creators in the Greater Toronto Area.
- 28 March 2021 : Do *I* do practice-based research?In which I work out whether I am a practice-based researcher.
- 26 March 2021 : What is practice-based research?I wanted a straightforward introduction to practice-based research. So I wrote one.
- 24 January 2021 : ‘Creativity’ book: How it’s goingBook progress! It's actually going quite well.
- 24 January 2021 : ‘Advice for Emerging Researchers’ videoIf you're a PhD student or an early-ish-career academic, here is a video.
2020
- 27 November 2020 : A music challenge for myselfI asked my students to do a project across the term, and so I'm doing it too.
- 12 October 2020 : The Black Mosaic – a new initiativeSupporting Black creators in the Toronto area.
- 8 September 2020 : Further Creativity Conversations – mentoring and supportNow offered free of charge - advice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects.
- 27 August 2020 : Your Creative Self 2020 intro video + musicI put a lot of work into this one!
- 16 July 2020 : Less is more? (The music-making journey continues)A new music track. Trying not to throw in too much. Failing.
- 7 July 2020 : New Zoom series: ‘Making it Happen’ on FridaysRecommissioned for a second Artscape Launchpad series!
- 18 June 2020 : Creativity Conversations – mentoring and supportAdvice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects. All proceeds to Black Lives Matter Toronto.
- 10 June 2020 : New video on ‘identity’ for UK A and AS Level studentsTrying to help out those UK students who have to write about 'Gauntlett' on 'identity'.
- 28 May 2020 : Getting somewhere (more music)Progress in the music department.
- 27 April 2020 : Weekly free creativity workshops on ZoomFree online workshops, hosted by Artscape Launchpad.
- 16 April 2020 : Collected observations on making musicThoughts on music-making, all in one place.
- 8 April 2020 : 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?
- 10 March 2020 : Learning from the music-making processOn getting useful feedback.
- 5 March 2020 : Creativity Everything podcast launched!It's an obvious idea . . . but that's not going to stop us!
- 20 January 2020 : Creativity is a thing you doWhat we are talking about when we talk about creativity.
- 6 January 2020 : ‘Your Creative Self’ workshop at Artscape LaunchpadAnd in a new team-up with Jodianne Beckford!
2019
- 30 December 2020 : A Drawing A Day – June to pause, 2019The last drawings before we went on a drawings pause.
- 24 November 2019 : The ‘dappled world’ and a more diverse perspectiveA nicer way of looking.
- 23 October 2019 : Hours of ‘The Creative Process’ lecture videosLots of lectures drop at once, like on Netflix, except, lectures.
- 9 August 2019 : Research, teaching and everything all interconnectedIt all fits together. It's all one thing.
- 19 July 2019 : Ways to kill creativity, no. 93: Turn it into a ‘discipline’I worked out why I don't want to be in their bubble.
- 5 July 2019 : Seeking an art-school ethos for my classroomOn the proper form of a university course
- 9 June 2019 : A Drawing A Day – May to June 2019More drawings.
- 7 June 2019 : Creativity Everything #FreeSchool exceeds all expectationsThe #FreeSchool was a delightful and diverse success!
- 3 May 2019 : Origins of the #FreeSchoolWhere did we nick this idea from?
- 3 May 2019 : Imagination as ideas, empathy and yearningIs imagination the same as creativity?
- 3 May 2019 : Creativity Everything #FreeSchool announcedTwo weeks of creative everything, open to everyone, running 21–31 May 2019.
- 16 April 2019 : A Drawing A Day – February to April 2019More drawings.
- 22 February 2019 : Canada Research Chair priorities and plansEstablishing what to do and what not to do.
- 11 February 2019 : An Experimental Culture of All Kinds of Things Made by EverybodyThis was going to be my next book, but then it wasn't.
- 9 February 2019 : ‘Your Creative Self’ course – hello insights!New course I'm teaching at Ryerson University.
- 8 February 2019 : Creativity Everything website launchedLaunch of new website for new lab!
- 31 January 2019 : A Drawing A Day – December 2018 & January 2019Into the new year with more drawings.
2018
- 6 December 2018 : New short video(s) of ‘Creativity Everything’ talkChoice of 7-min and 12-min brisk videos on new stuff.
- 25 November 2018 : A Drawing A Day – October & November 2018Now up to 803 drawings. Featuring the usual leaves, trees, mugs, seagulls... and leaping beyond the gloom.
- 15 October 2018 : ‘Creativity Everything’ talk at The Power Plant, TorontoFree event! 15 November 2018.
- 10 October 2018 : Elegant workshop process at Artscape LaunchpadA nice simple workshop that works.
- 30 September 2018 : A Drawing A Day – September 2018More drawings.
- 31 August 2018 : From the archives: Media as triggers, as sparks, and the ‘push’ model of makingGood bit from 2015.
- 31 August 2018 : A Drawing A Day – August 2018A fresh new batch.
- 18 August 2018 : From the archives: Media Studies 2.0This was quite contentious, eleven years ago.
- 3 August 2018 : New course anxieties and two solutionsIt's all about what happens in the room.
- 2 August 2018 : A Drawing A Day restarts after 3,185-day pauseReturn of the drawing project which previously ran 2004-09.
- 4 July 2018 : Toronto Maker Festival workshopMaker identities workshop.
- 4 July 2018 : Video from ‘Making is Connecting’ Second Edition launchNew 33-minute talk.
- 29 May 2018 : Book launch and talk, Toronto, 26 June 2018Free event at Artscape Sandbox.
- 8 May 2018 : Two-minute video about new bookA short introduction to the new book.
- 4 May 2018 : Research theme #3: Public understanding of creative practiceThe third of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
- 4 May 2018 : Research theme #2: Creative identities and leadershipThe second of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
- 4 May 2018 : Research theme #1: Platforms for creativityThe first of my three Canada Research Chair themes.
- 4 May 2018 : New Canada research plans and activitiesMy Canada Research Chair seven-year plan.
- 24 April 2018 : DIY academiaOn self-reliance – a piece that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 10 April 2018 : Free preview: Making is Connecting introductionNew stuff from new book, free, online, right now.
- 9 April 2018 : Deleted section: ‘Some imagined futures’Rescued from the bin – a 'deleted scene' from Making is Connecting.
- 8 April 2018 : Helpful people: A guide for researchersAnother in the unexpectedly long series of articles for Funding Insight magazine.
- 5 March 2018 : Your creative self (course)A new course I'm offering at Ryerson University, Toronto.
- 8 February 2018 : The rise of the entrepreneurial academicMaking things happen. An article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 16 January 2018 : Toronto: new beginningsA new job at Ryerson University. Locals are invited to say hi.
2017
- 4 December 2017 : Nearly here: Making is Connecting, Second editionFully revised, with three new chapters! And pink!
- 11 September 2017 : The researcher’s backpackAnother 'advice' article for aspiring researchers, that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 4 September 2017 : News from me: Hello Canada!I've got a new job at Ryerson University, Toronto, starting in January.
- 6 July 2017 : ‘Theories of identity’ in the new Media Studies A & AS LevelResource for Media Studies teachers.
- 5 June 2017 : BFI Media Conference and me on the National CurriculumOn the National Curriculum: 'both pleasing and weird'.
- 18 May 2017 : Public speaking for academicsAnother 'advice' article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 3 March 2017 : William Morris, making things, Kickstarter, and LEGOInspiration for makers.
- 31 January 2017 : Social media for academicsAn article of 'advice' that I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
2016
- 21 November 2016 : Do things and see what happens: music-making, creativity and collaborationReflections after a day in the studio with Matt Gooderson.
- 11 November 2016 : ‘Being creative’ at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandNew diagram of creativity. Public lecture, workshop and more.
- 16 October 2016 : Making music (2): ReflectionsSome thoughts on the creative experience of music-making.
- 14 October 2016 : Making music (1): Introduction / overviewOn me making music. Don't worry, you don't actually have to listen to any.
- 22 September 2016 : The Ambassador will see you nowThey shouldn't give me flattering titles like this.
- 13 June 2016 : Unsolicited advice on your academic careerAnother article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 10 June 2016 : Research methods as a site of dynamic innovationAn article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 8 June 2016 : My TEDx talk, ‘Building platforms for creativity’From TEDxUmeå. It's now online.
- 17 May 2016 : Stairway to impactIntroducing my 'staircase' model of impact, which was devised to show researchers how they can achieve research 'impact'.
- 26 April 2016 : The Rotherhithe Shed – videoThe video they made when I visited the Shed.
- 16 April 2016 : Countdown to TEDx Umeå, part twoI made a one-minute intro video in a Danish forest.
- 20 February 2016 : The Rotherhithe Shed – making is connecting in South LondonI visited a workshop where older men work together, making things.
- 10 February 2016 : New 7-minute Making Media Studies cut-down videoLess is more.
- 9 February 2016 : Digital DIY and ‘creative society’Our part of the European project gets under way.
- 29 January 2016 : Countdown to TEDx Umeå, part one15 weeks of planning for 18 minutes of talking starts here.
- 5 January 2016 : Making Media Studies videoA whole 32 minute video with an annoying computer voice asking me questions.
2015
- 1 November 2015 : Job opportunity: Digital DIY researcherA job advert! I really do need to find someone great for this. Please help. Deadline is 22 November 2015.
- 26 September 2015 : Chicago: Libraries as platforms for creativity, day twoThe second day of my Chicago trip, including my talk and workshop.
- 24 September 2015 : Chicago: Libraries as platforms for creativity, day oneI visited Chicago Public Library System, where they are rethinking libraries as places of making and exchange.
- 11 September 2015 : Making meaningful connections … and the future of universitiesUniversity education as conversations, inspirations, making things happen.
- 27 August 2015 : Making Things workshop, with LEGO Minecraft, and music, in a libraryA workshop on making things physically and digitally. Plus an argument for responsive, unobtrusive research.
- 21 August 2015 : Achieving REF-able ‘impact’ in the arts and humanitiesAlso written for Funding Insight magazine. Ignore this post if you happen to be oblivious to UK academic worries about 'the REF' – lucky you.
- 21 August 2015 : Writing a successful funding application in the arts and humanitiesAn article I wrote for Funding Insight magazine.
- 17 July 2015 : Milan makerspacesThe #DiDIY team enjoyed informative and inspiring visits to WeMake and OpenDot in Milan.
- 3 July 2015 : Platforms for Creativity: Eight principles revisitedNewer, tidier version of my 'eight principles' piece, which can be read alongside my new blog post 'Platforms for Creativity: Introduction'.
- 3 July 2015 : Platforms for Creativity: IntroductionExplaining what I mean when I talk about 'platforms for creativity'.
- 17 June 2015 : Chicago ‘Platforms for Creativity’ event featuring all-new tinkerbox workshop conceptChicago event on 23 September 2015.
- 1 June 2015 : Museums and libraries as platforms for creativityWhat happened when I went to the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.
- 14 April 2015 : The most important thing is making meaningful connectionsOn meaningful connections rather than frictionless content.
- 3 April 2015 : Research Through Design #RTD2015 reflected in LEGOFrom an amazing conference in Cambridge.
- 24 March 2015 : Making Media Studies – 2‑minute intro videoNew video about new book.
- 10 March 2015 : Digital Folk – launch event, 1 April 2015An exciting free event in London.
- 10 February 2015 : What is Digital DIY? – part twoWe're still working on it.
- 6 February 2015 : What is Digital DIY?Some starter thoughts about our EU-funded project.
- 30 January 2015 : Storify summary of ‘Platforms for Creativity’ eventsPictures, tweets and blog posts from the Dundee events.
- 13 January 2015 : Dundee event: Platforms for CreativityA talk and a workshop about creativity with Amy Twigger Holroyd, on 29 January 2015.
- 4 January 2015 : Open Access: Articles by me about everyday creativity, making, and digital mediaThings by me that you can read for free.
2014
- 30 December 2015 : Collaborating with businesses and organisations for researchPart two of the two-part series on collaborations.
- 16 December 2014 : Building collaborative relationships for researchAn article on collaborations I wrote for 'Research Professional'.
- 13 November 2014 : Digital DIY – new EU funded projectNew project starts in early 2015.
- 7 November 2014 : At the World Innovation Summit for Education, WISE 2014On the importance of play, for everyone.
- 6 November 2014 : De Chocoladefabriek Gouda – Making is Connecting in actionReinventing the library, in an old chocolate factory.
- 13 October 2014 : Why ‘share’ and ‘sharing’ are often the wrong wordsMore thoughts on inappropriate words.
- 12 October 2014 : Never said ‘prosumer’ in my lifeI don't like made-up words.
- 3 October 2014 : Technology and learning – panel discussion with Ashoka and LEGO FoundationVideo of a Google Hangout.
- 24 September 2014 : Making Media Studies: book finished and blurb doneI finished writing my new book!
- 14 August 2014 : Micro LEGO Serious Play: How small can a useful tool for thinking be?Can you do LEGO Serious Play with just 37 pieces?
- 16 July 2014 : Making Media Studies: What kinds of knowledge do we need now?Extract from crowdsourced interview in my new book.
- 24 June 2014 : What do you know about?Final post in the self-reflective four-part series.
- 23 June 2014 : 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.
- 20 June 2014 : What I’m trying to work outWhat can I usefully do? Part 2 in a series of 4.
- 19 June 2014 : What’s the point of you again?What am I trying to do? Part 1 of a 4-part series.
- 10 June 2014 : Making Media Studies: Extract from new bookWhat is 'The creativity turn in media and communications studies'?
- 5 June 2014 : Infographics!Wordy conversations turned into graphic graphics!
- 22 May 2014 : Questions please, for new crowdsourced interviewSend me a question please!
- 15 May 2014 : Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #3: On small stepsLast in the series.
- 15 May 2014 : Digital Folk – new projectNew AHRC funded research.
- 8 May 2014 : Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #2: On sustainabilityNumber two in the series of three.
- 7 May 2014 : Playful creative learning: adults firstThe cart before the horse.
- 1 May 2014 : Amy Twigger Holroyd and David Gauntlett in conversation, #1: On design, and systemsFirst in a series of three!
- 24 March 2014 : Media Studies 2.0: a whole new book!A good book.
- 11 March 2014 : Actually doing the thingHands-on making.
- 4 March 2014 : ‘Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change’ full videoNew old long video.
- 5 February 2014 : Previously unpublished ‘Making is Connecting’ openingFeaturing William Morris and Martin Creed.
2013
- 10 December 2013 : MTWMAM#6: Process and piecesContributed by Kay Steven.
- 10 December 2013 : MTWMAM#5: Knitted paper sockContributed by Megan McPherson.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#4: Introvert avatarContributed by VK.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#3: ‘I am a maker’Contributed by Gemma Latham.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#2: Embroidery for JaniceContributed by Anne Liddon.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#1C: Nature in the homeContributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#1B: Kitchen collageContributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
- 28 November 2013 : MTWMAM#1A: Paper starsContributed by Yun Mi Antorini.
- 27 November 2013 : Making is Connecting in KoreanAm I dreaming?
- 11 November 2013 : Six theses about making things in a digital worldA new article by me.
- 4 November 2013 : Maker Faire videosVideos from New York and Rome.
- 31 October 2013 : My foreword to ‘New Noise’ by Simon LindgrenAn interesting book.
- 21 October 2013 : Making, DIY, and disrupting the professionalsAn interview with Zoe Romano.
- 17 September 2013 : Making things with makers about making (introduction)New project!
- 18 July 2013 : Countdown to the Maker FairesNew York! Rome! Exciting!
- 9 July 2013 : Systems for unpredictable creativityOn creating a 'climate of possibility'.
- 5 July 2013 : Building the future of ParliamentFrom March 2009: on political participation.
- 2 July 2013 : LEGO Cultures of Creativity report launched todayFrom my collaboration with the LEGO Foundation.
- 11 June 2013 : Tools for thinking: IntroductionIntroduction to an ongoing theme.
- 28 May 2013 : ‘Making is Connecting’, Richard Sennett and my dadFrom May 2011: after a Radio 4 programme.
- 15 May 2013 : Building platforms for creativity: Eight principlesFrom April 2012: eight core principles.
- 4 May 2013 : Digital transformations and open accessFrom May 2012: on 'publish, then filter' and more.
- 29 April 2013 : A tale of two booksFrom May 2012: how I made my own Kindle book.
- 25 April 2013 : Hello! New site, new blogA new website and a new blog.