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Cultivating Creativity
A rich and playful resource for fostering creativity in the classroom
The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises and strategies that can be adapted to suit a variety of disciplines.
More than a practical guide, this book uses a combination of playful design, full-color illustrations, participant reflections, and pedagogical reflection to encourage innovation. Readers can turn to the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why” chapters for guidance on developing exercises of their own, or flip to any page for a dose of inspiration before their next creative project.
Today’s world is filled with nations, businesses, venture capitalists, and institutions of higher education in hot pursuit of “innovation.” Cultivating Creativity offers up new strategies for finding it and invites each reader to continue their search in a way only they can.
The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises and strategies that can be adapted to suit a variety of disciplines.
More than a practical guide, this book uses a combination of playful design, full-color illustrations, participant reflections, and pedagogical reflection to encourage innovation. Readers can turn to the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why” chapters for guidance on developing exercises of their own, or flip to any page for a dose of inspiration before their next creative project.
Today’s world is filled with nations, businesses, venture capitalists, and institutions of higher education in hot pursuit of “innovation.” Cultivating Creativity offers up new strategies for finding it and invites each reader to continue their search in a way only they can.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2022
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December 2, 2022
Cultivating Creativity, Iain M. Robertson
“The mind cannot not be creative.”
This collection of insights and follies takes the instructor, reader, or player on a provocative journey into the unknown--and nearly unspeakable--act of creation. Delightful and imaginative exercises conjure discovery through lopsided, wild, and extraordinary origins. Teach yourself or others how to stretch and tinker while altered states and feelings take you out beyond where the tide breaks.
Iain Robertson magically turns somewhat typical learning upside down and inside out. Sample exercises include taking a journey across a rock; lining up bottles in order of descending truthfulness; or responding to a handwritten letter mailed in the 1800s. Photographs, illustrations, scribblings, and such artfully depict the mystery tour.
Creativity is about going inside and finding what has never been found before: “…it’s a drawing out not a putting in.” Wonder, absurdity, and curiosity reign!
Iain M. Robertson (1948-2021) was an Associate Professor Emeritus and former chair of the University of Washington’s Landscape Architecture Department. He also served as an adjunct faculty in the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. His work and teachings inspire creatives—potentially all of us—to lead our world into a vital and limitless future.
“The mind cannot not be creative.”
This collection of insights and follies takes the instructor, reader, or player on a provocative journey into the unknown--and nearly unspeakable--act of creation. Delightful and imaginative exercises conjure discovery through lopsided, wild, and extraordinary origins. Teach yourself or others how to stretch and tinker while altered states and feelings take you out beyond where the tide breaks.
Iain Robertson magically turns somewhat typical learning upside down and inside out. Sample exercises include taking a journey across a rock; lining up bottles in order of descending truthfulness; or responding to a handwritten letter mailed in the 1800s. Photographs, illustrations, scribblings, and such artfully depict the mystery tour.
Creativity is about going inside and finding what has never been found before: “…it’s a drawing out not a putting in.” Wonder, absurdity, and curiosity reign!
Iain M. Robertson (1948-2021) was an Associate Professor Emeritus and former chair of the University of Washington’s Landscape Architecture Department. He also served as an adjunct faculty in the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. His work and teachings inspire creatives—potentially all of us—to lead our world into a vital and limitless future.
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