Creative process workshop – designing personalized tools for artistic projects (2 op)

Arviointiasteikko

H-5

Sisällön jaksotus

The course consists of an intensive workshop aimed at developing students' creative processes, focusing on the conceptual stage of project development. Through a combination of practical exercises, theoretical input, and collaborative feedback, students will gain tools to enhance their creativity and establish a personal art toolbox.

PROGRAM CONTENT
1. Materialization of an idea - how to go from idea to action and narrative/visual
decisions?
2. Time in the creative process - how to manage it?
3. Tools in the conceptual work on an idea - learning how to choose individual
methods for a given process
4. Autobiography as a tool - analysis of examples from various fields. How to have
healthy approach to the work that is so close to our life experiences?
5. Obstacles and creative crises - methods and techniques to overcome them
6. Helpful rituals and creative practices - case study
7. A style of work during the process that translates into a piece – art examples
8. Pitching – how to pitch an idea on a stage of development?

Schedule:
- Intensive one-week workshop, 5 consecutive days, 4 hours per day (obs. course launch event week earlier than main days)

Tavoitteet

Learning Objectives:
Students understand the importance of the preconceptual stage in the creative process.
Students can utilize various creative tools and methods for idea development.
Students are able to create their own "art toolbox" consisting of methods and exercises suited to their work dynamics and thinking style.
Students experience the joy and fun of the creative process.

Sisältö

Developing an idea and naming the world behind the project.
Introducing different approaches to creative processes.
Using creative tools and methods such as writing walks, improvisation exercises, creating moodboards and moodbooks.
Asking questions about your own and others' projects in the development phase.
Keeping a creative process diary.
Pitching methods and exercises related to regularity, inspiration and creative routines.

Opetusmenetelmät

METHODOLOGY EXAMPLES
- writing walks
- impro exercises based on creative writing tools – f.e. texts on random topics
- writing on time, with a time limit- ideas that are created in 15-30 minutes
- methods for creating moodboards and moodbooks – analogue and online
- learning to ask questions to your own projects and to other projects on the stage of
development
- journal of the creative process
- a book of useful quotes, overheard dialogues
- pitching methods
- exercises related to regularity, inspiration, creative routine, style

Tenttien ajankohdat ja uusintamahdollisuudet

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Pedagogiset toimintatavat ja kestävä kehitys

EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
1. The student gains knowledge about the variety of approaches to the creative
process
2. Students are able to share their own creative processes in a safe way - set limits,
ask questions
3. The student selects the tools that serve best in the creative process
4. The student is able to recognize and name good and bad practices in the creative
process
5. The student understands the specificity of its own creative process and is able to
use it in the work
6. The students learns to talk about their projects in English

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

EVALUATION CRITERIA
During the workshops each student goes through the creative process on one, small
idea. We work on trying various methods of the creative process to help each
student to pick the best ones for a particular project. Each process will get regular
feedback from the group. In the end of this workshop each student will present the
‘work in progress’, a kind of memoir of the process that went on during and between
classes.