Playing, Creativity, Possibility – Olivia Gude
Gude cites Carl Rogers a lot in this article. Rogers says that in order to cultivate creativity, external evaluation must be absent, which I think is true upon the initial realization of an artwork, but feedback and conversation counts as external evaluation. I want to encourage and nurture a talkative and safe environment for that to happen.
I think that what’s forgotten with creative freedom (and was touched upon in describing Rogers’ psychological freedom) is an absence of responsibility. The maker needs to remember that they are putting the creation into existence for a consumer audience.
I look up the Spiral Workshop which led me to Gude’s lesson plans.
It’s interesting that she writes about a less structured approach to teaching, yet uses enabling constraints in her lessons (i.e. A Portrait of Place lesson, where students link a place to who they are and cannot use linear perspective.)
Question: What kind of activities allow students to have a ‘creative break’ from an art project?