The New Creativity Workshop with Sylvia Lavin

The New Creativity Workshop with Sylvia Lavin

Creativity is no longer the purview of what were once called the creative arts or the people who make them.  Instead, it has become a generalized notion associated more with an attitude than any particular activity or type of production. This diffusion of creativity has, on the one hand, produced a virtually uninterrupted continuum of creative space that houses everything from You’ve Got Talent to an infinite number of square feet of office space, the over-designed but equally ubiquitous counterpart of junk space.  On the other hand, it has also pressed itself onto creative and intellectual disciplines to form a new model of creativity itself.   Combining research with design and mobilizing a network of actions and instruments, the new creativity defines the creative impact of one agent in relation to its capacity to engender creativity in another. 

Workshop

This workshop explores the new creativity in the context of Action Office, an exemplary episode in the history the development of this new model.  Students will briefly research an historical action office, investigate the tools of design used in its production and will use, misuse and ultimately redesign the tools themselves.  Student output will be drawings made using historic Action Office templates as well as new templates to be used to generate new forms of design.

To register, RSVP to Deniz McGee by Wednesday, February 4, at 5:00 pm.

Schedule