What a studio is or could be


Peter Taylor, Director, Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, and Science in a Changing World track, University of Massachusetts, Boston, peter.taylor@umb.edu

This workshop is a truncated version of a Collaborative Exploration (CE), which are designed for in-depth interaction and inquiry over a delimited period of time, typically online but not in this workshop. CEs might be seen as a form of studio. (An outline is appended of the full CE from which the workshop is extracted.)
This page, with live links, can be viewed at http://bit.ly/CERMITU.

Intro:
Topic: What creative personal and group habits would you establish in the new learning-research studios or workshops to make them spaces that foster design as research and as reflective practice?

Session 1: Autobiographical intros







Between-session work: Initial thoughts and investigations of the topic









Session 2: Five-phase format discussion, to clarify what we are thinking about the topic





End with:

After session 4 (optional): Participants share products to a wider community [via discussion posts to files/page/messages/CERMITU (ask for login info)]



What a studio is or could be (with full description of CE)


Peter Taylor, Director, Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, and Science in a Changing World track, University of Massachusetts, Boston, peter.taylor@umb.edu

This workshop doubles as an introduction to Collaborative Explorations (CEs), which are designed for in-depth interaction and inquiry over a delimited period of time, typically online but not in this workshop. CEs might be seen as a form of studio.
This page, with live links, can be viewed at http://bit.ly/CERMITU. (Text in green = guidance for an online or extended CE, not applicable for this live workshop)

Invitation
a. overview

b. case or scenario

[insert mini-lecture on contrasting views of "creative and transformative education" to motivate these questions]


c. sign up

d. get set up


Session 1; Autobiographical intros









Between-session work: Initial thoughts and investigations of the case & posts (using a private google+ community or, today, files/page/messages/CERMITU [ask for login info])









Session 2 (Alternative A): Five-phase format discussion, to clarify what we are thinking about the case

Session 2 (Alternative B): Focus on Detailed Case Study (read in advance)

Between-session work: More inquiry and posting related to the case. Prepare a work-in-progress (W-I-P) presentation

Session 3: Work-in-progress presentations

Between-session work: more inquiry, revise W-I-P presentation into product (shareable to wider world?), post reflections





Session 4: Five-phase format discussion, to reflect on experience, outcomes, process, next steps.
End with:

After session 4 (optional): Participants share products to a wider community [via discussion posts to files/page/messages/CERMITU (ask for login info)]