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Creativity and Creative Process

This course is a hybrid studio/theory class where students study and engage in the creative process. An analysis of contemporary artists and designers, in conjunction with researching psychological theories in creativity, prepares students to solve five different problems using a specific creative process.

Student Stamples

syllabus

weekly outline

student presentation outline

project assignment sheets
1. metaphor/life 
2. habitual acts
3. play
4. sustainable materials
5. the gift

week 1

Reading_Metaphors We Live By

Student Examples

Schools Kill Creativity Animation


week 2

Metaphor video links
     TED Art of Metaphor
      Metaphor in song
      Metaphor and Simile in Song
     Metaphor and the Brain
Artist
Tabaimo: dolefullhouse and metaphor

week 3

statement of intent sample

Creative Process 

week 4

Failure

Animation on Where Ideas Come From

Paula Scher

week 5

how to get ideas

Statement of Intent for Habits

week 6

ideas for play
Links
     architecture of play

week 7

Play
TED talk on Chip Kidd
Wired article Chip Kidd
     United Nations plea for sustainability
 

week 8

Sustainability
     Sustainability Explained
     Energy and sustainability
     A sustainable World 
Systematic problem
     Bottled Water
     Story of Stuff ---Watch this one

week 9

more links for sustainability
We have no class on October 31. So, go enjoy Halloween but before next week make sure you view all these films and make notes. Google Ecodesign and see what you can find to help with ideas.

all watch at least 3 more than in class.

Vic Muniz Wasteland
another Wasteland clip
Trashed, the film

Garbage (the film)
Garbage Dreams
Garbage Warrior
Garbage Mountain
Garbage Island

Why care about Water?
When the water ends
Global Partnership for the Oceans
Colorado River Delta_

Trash Mountain project
Trash mountain film

Sustainable Architecture

week 10

Sustainability continued

How to Build Creative Confidence_TED

The Green Museum_Betsy Damon

Betsy Damon_Center for Global Environment

Spiral Jetty_Robert Smithson

Mark Dion_ART 21

Mel Chin--Revival Field

Mel Chin-- Fundred Dollar Bill Project, New Orleans

Mel Chin--- Interview

week 10

Critique Sustainability 
The Gift --readings

Lewis Hyde_Gift

Maurice Godelier_Gift

Marcel Mauss_the Gift

week 11

Continue working on the Gift

Lewis Hyde_mind map of The Gift

The Gift Wiki

More Information: conceptualize your Gift in Time

What is Time Based Art?

Duration_Bergson
Picture

week 12

Continue work on The Gift

Things students have done in the past

Examples of dos and don'ts

Time lecture

Community based arts:
Project Row Houses
Operation Pay Dirt
Gramsci Monument_Forest Housing Project, Bronx

Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival_film Part 1
Tim Rollins and the kids of Survival_film Part 2
Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival_film Part 3
Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival_film Part 4
Part 5 won't play
Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival_film Part 6

Artists:
Andy Goldsworthy_ Rivers and Tides
Hiraki Sawa_ Dwelling
Tabaimo_ video projection on walls and floor
Tabaimo_ James Cohan
Bill Viola_ Passing
Bill Viola in 60 minutes

week 13

questions about Andy Goldsworthy film

STAC Faculty Show statements

Don't forget to push yourself and your ideas.
This is a class about creative process.

Take risks. And by that we don't mean endanger yourself. We mean, do something that makes you feel a little scared because maybe:
1. you don't know how it will come out.
2. you don't have control over the outcome.
3. you are trying something new and different.
4. you are exposing something about yourself that you've kept very quiet.
5. you are overcoming some fears.

here are some links to support this Risk and Creativity thing.

Risk-Taking: Can I actually do that?

Risk and Failure and Creativity

Page on Risk__ the one posted to the right

The Gift_yes there's more

If you can't read this, there's a link to the left at the bottom.
Picture

week 14-end

The Gift presentation:

Self-Evaluation form

Notes on statement

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