Making the Creative Process Visible: An account of strategies that can be used to facilitate the development of independent, creative thought

Abstract

The resource resulting from this project comprises five short films documenting the development of ideas in the work of a cross-section of students from the BA and MA ceramic programmes in University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC). The films render visible their negotiation of thought and seek to illustrate tendencies and patterns in the ways ideas are developed. Whilst a key concern for students is innovation, the ways in which they negotiate ideas often employ common traits akin to the relationship between thought and language. Within an educational context, the identification of these modes of development can provide a toolbox of possibilities to be altered or rejected at any stage in the development of a given body of work but always present to generate and keep ideas mobile.