Platforms for creativity - workshop

David Gauntlett and Amy Twigger Holroyd will discuss examples from their own practices, and initiatives by others, which offer ideas about how we can create supportive platforms for creativity. This is at an open lecture held from 10am on 29 January in LT4 Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee.

For the afternoon workshop, you need to register in advance here.

Amy and David have developed some tools and processes, which can be used at an event or workshop, to get people thinking and making creatively. In this workshop we won’t use any of those. Instead you will be invited to invent some entirely new ones. We will help. It will be fun.

Each participant is asked to bring along one object – or set of objects! – which you think might be fruitful ‘tools for thinking’. This could be anything really. Don’t worry about it, but bring something.

David Gauntlett is a professor in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster. He is the author of several books, including Making is Connecting. He has made digital things, projects, and collaborations. For 10 years he has worked with LEGO on creativity, play and learning.

Amy Twigger Holroyd is a designer, maker, and researcher, who founded the experimental knitwear label Keep & Share ten years ago. Her work has been featured in magazines, books and journals, from Vogue to Fashion Theory. She is now working on the Design Routes project at the University of Leeds.