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Don't miss these workshops in January! Places still available ************************************************************** 11th January, 26th January & 2nd February (3 half-day workshops) Into print (3 half-day workshops) led by Kate Williams and 23rd January Creative thinking processes: getting lost is good. Knowing how you got lost is even better! led by Tory Dunn ************************************************************** FURTHER DETAILS Into print The context Lecturers spend much of their time developing and supporting their students’writing, and their own plans to write can get squeezed out by day-to-day pressures. These workshops offer an opportunity for participants to focus on their own writing, and to rehearse the process, from idea to finished product. The workshop process All sessions are highly interactive, with paired and small group work, and instant presentation and feedback. The sessions work through enabling you to create and see your structures and plans, with sketches and diagrams. Through these processes, they offer opportunities for networking with other students. The workshops The workshops are designed as a sequence, so you should plan to attend all three if at all possible. Workshop 1: Mapping the process: Wednesday 11th January 2006 10.30-1.00 • Clarifying aims and objectives • Planning and sequencing research Workshop 2 : Form and Structure: Thursday 26th January 2006 10.30-1.00 • Developing a rationale • Thinking about an outline • Planning an introduction Workshop 3 : Writing issues: Thursday 2nd February 2006 10.30-1.00 • Developing an argument • Structures for writing __________________________________________________________ Creative thinking processes: getting lost is good. Knowing how you got lost is even better! Background and issues Learning in art, design and most other fields implies learning methods to think creatively. Yet most of us have only been exposed to generic brainstorming and mind mapping as methods of generating ideas. What happens when we hit a creative block? What happens to a student in a professional field if the client doesn’t like the proposal? How do we analyse and evaluate the output of our brainstorming? How can we be certain we are investing our efforts in the best questions? This workshop introduces and provides opportunities to try a number of techniques based on the work of Edward deBono and others. Participants For tutors of Further or Higher Education students, teaching either studio or theory-based courses. Aims and Outcomes The aim of the workshop is to give participants the experience of a range of creative thinking techniques, presented in the context of the overall creative process. As an outcome of the workshop, participants should feel that they will have broadened their vocabulary of creative thinking techniques, and have a basis from which they can build these techniques into the working methods that their students are learning. Process The workshop will include discussion of the techniques to be explored, followed by opportunities to try out the methods. The experience of participation in a series of creative thinking sessions, some of which will focus on light issues, with others examining real issues faced by the participants, is an important feature of the day. There will also be discussion of specific teaching and learning issues in this area. Beginning with the notion “building in” creative effort opportunities, the workshop progresses through defining a focus, developing a focus into a broad range of ideas, and introduces the notion of provocation and other techniques to disrupt predictable thinking. The workshop also provides the opportunity to work with methods to evaluate ideas that have been generated, and looks at using creative thinking techniques to enhance team work. __________________________________________________________ For booking http://cltad.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 8162 Workshops generally run from 10 15am - 4 00pm, at 65 Davies Street London WC1 Cost unless specified on the booking form £155 ************************************************** now booking enhancing curricula conference: 3 Lisbon, 6th-7th April 2006 http:www.cltad.ac.uk