Managing Creativity

In collaboration with Extended Learning at UBC, I have designed and taught a remotely offered course entitled Managing Creativity as part of a Biomedical Visualization & Communication Certificate Program. The objective of the first iteration of the course was to support teams of individuals to nurture, manage and direct their creative impulses that emerge from collaborating.

Students work and play together, and in the process:

  • develop collaborative habits to improve communication, listening and adaptability
  • assimilate tools to strategically manage their work within a team-based context
  • stretch beyond their own creative boundaries using a variety of improvised activities
  • integrate tools, projects and approaches they learn from other courses toward their own creative processes
  • deepen self-awareness of their own creative process and those of others.

For a weekly breakdown visit the site: https://extendedlearning.ubc.ca/courses/managing-creativity/ga012

Students in the course were inspiring in their approach to creativity and we used Miro extensively to brainstorm synchronously, submit weekly assignments, and present work. I look forward to V. 2 in January.