Inspeeration: Visual Imagery x Creativity

In collaboration with Tilburg University, TUDelft and the minor Connected Creativity, we are organizing another Inspeeration event on November 6th, (from 14:30 – 19:00).

This event will offer insight into how becoming aware of your inner mental processes can unlock new dimensions of creativity. We will explore how internal experiences, like visual imagery and inner speech, shape our creative thinking and problem-solving and what it means when they are absent, as in conditions like aphantasia or anauralia.

In line with our tradition, we will offer interactive activities that bridge the gap between theory and practice, allowing room for both hands-on experience and deepening of knowledge.

Agenda:

14:30 Walk-in & registration

15:00 Opening (@ Wim Crouwel room)

15:10 Talks & knowledge exchange: Visual Imagery × Creativity

16:10 Break

16:30 Imagery sessions

17:15 CuriosiTea Café

18:00 Networking and borrel

19:00 Closing or: Gateway to the next adventure…

Speakers

From Tilburg University

Sharing perspectives from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and the arts: on differences in perceiving, experiencing and processing ideas and creativity.

• Tessa van Leeuwen: What is imagery? Variety of ‘internal tools’

• Alwin de Rooij: Varieties of Inner Speech and Creative Potential

• Myrthe Faber: Individual differences in processing, experiencing and liking ideas

From TU Delft

Focusing on translating inner tools into outward practices:

• Milene Gonçalves: Picture this - how visual thinking shapes creativity

• Pan Wang: Symbiotic creativity – human-machine creativity

• Katrina Heijne: Inspeeration: Imagery x Creativity (introduction)

Workshops

• Katrina Heijne: (Mis)understand me better
• Margreet Beets: Imagination
• Students from the Minor Connected Creativity: Imaginative creativity techniques