Note: Sir Ken Robinson's lecture is free and open to the public. Seats, however, are limited. Please reserve your seat for his lecture on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 here: RSVP.
SIr Ken Robinson's lecture "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative" will be held at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 in the Brown-Lupton University Union.
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.
He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. The resulting blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, was adopted by politicians of all parties and by business, education and cultural leaders across the Province. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of South East Asia.
For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now professor emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Arts and Design, the Open University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Birmingham City University and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, the LEGO Prize for international achievement in education and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he was named as one of TIME/FORTUNE/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking 2009) is a New York Times best seller and has been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest book is a 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Capstone/Wiley). Sir Ken was born in Liverpool, UK, as one of seven children. He is married to Therese (Lady) Robinson. They have two children, James and Kate, and now live in Los Angeles, California.
Note: Seats for Thursday's workshops are limited (100 maximum) and available only to members of the TCU community and Event Sponsors. All seats are full day only; no seats are available for individual workshops. If you are a TCU faculty or staff member, a TCU student, or an Event Sponsor, please contact Jill Deramus or your department chair for further information.
Magdalena Grohman | Theresa Reid | Michael Wesch | Jay Edelnant | W. Kenneth Wiseman
Dr. Magdalena Grohman's workshop "The Psychology of Creative Process" will be held from 8:30 to 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in the Kelly Alumni Center.
Dr. Grohman is the Associate Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology, and Psychology at UT Dallas.
Dr. Grohman's background is in creative thinking, problem solving and education. Her core interest is to propagate creative thinking as part of life-span education. Between 1998 and 2003, she led workshops and seminars on cognitive psychology and psychology of creativity for undergraduate and graduate students at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and at The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
Since 2007 Dr. Grohman has co-taught seminars on creativity at the Dallas Museum of Art. She now teaches a course on psychology of creativity at UT Dallas. Dr. Grohman also has 15 years of experience leading workshops on creative thinking techniques and creative problem solving, both in commercial and educational settings. From 1994 to 2004, she led creative-thinking workshops for gifted and talented children at the Polish Children's Fund. She has published several chapters and articles on creativity, both in Polish and English.
Dr. Theresa Reid's workshop "Creativity and Collaborative Learning" will be held from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in the Kelly Alumni Center.
Theresa Reid, PhD, is Executive Director of ArtsEngine, at the University of Michigan (http://artsengine.umich.edu).
ArtsEngine’s mission is to maximize the creative confidence and production of U-M students, faculty, and staff by integrating the visual and performing arts, architecture, engineering, and other disciplines.
A collaboration among U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning; School of Art & Design; School of Music, Theatre & Dance; College of Engineering; and Libraries, ArtsEngine stimulates and supports integrative, project-based creative work, course development, and sustained research among faculty, students, and staff from its founding schools and other U-M units.
As founding Executive Director, Theresa Reid has worked closely with the five dean-directors and dozens of faculty from across campus, developing and launching an ambitious set of projects. These include “Creative Process,” an undergraduate interdisciplinary studio-lecture course; “Living Arts,” ArtsEngine’s living-learning community; Idea, a student group that sponsors design competitions such as “42 Hours of Re_Creativity”; WorkPlay, an interdisciplinary, campus-wide design competition; and “ArtsLabs” — interdisciplinary, experiential, arts-driven learning events.
Dr. Michael Wesch's workshop "The World Remixed: The Importance and Potential of Authentic Learning Environments in the Digital Age" will be held from 12:00 to 1:30 pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in the Kelly Alumni Center.
Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a
cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society
and culture.
After two years studying the implications of writing on a
remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he
has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital
technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology,
education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in
over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film
festivals and major academic conferences worldwide.
Wesch has won
several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave
Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology,
and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic.
He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008
CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research
Universities.
Dr. Jay Edelnant's workshop "Assessing Creative Work" will be held from 1:30 to 2:45 pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in the Kelly Alumni Center.
Dr. Jay Edelnant teaches courses in theatre history, directing, and dramatic literature, directs and writes plays, and has served as Department Head, Director of Theatre, and Director of Graduate Studies.
He has served as a consultant for various state, national, and international educational and arts agencies, and been a guest artist in Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Wyoming, Oregon, and Nebraska. has been a Roy Carver Fellow, Sasakawa Fellow at the Japan Studies Institute, and has received the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence.
He serves as a consultant and evaluator for other universities, to the Iowa Arts, Education and Humanities Boards and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has worked with the Teatr Wybrzeze and University of Gdansk, Poland; Teatro Fanny & Alexander and the Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy; and the Ostrovsky Theatrical and Art Institute of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
He served as the National Chair of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and held many offices in that organization. For the past several years he has been an active member of the Governing Council for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, most recently authoring its newest guidelines for promotion and tenure. He was one of the founding editors of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's national professional journal Theatre Topics. Edelnant received his B.A. from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois and master's and doctorate from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
W. Kenneth Wiseman's workshop "Creative Learning Spaces" will be held from 3:00 to 4:45 pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in the Kelly Alumni Center.
W.Kenneth Wiseman is the President of Professional Services and Design Principal at Cannon Design.
As a Design Principal and President of Professional Services at Cannon Design, Mr. Wiseman brings over 30 years of design excellence to projects throughout North America. He is responsible for initiatives governing the recruitment and development of the best design talent and technical expertise to perpetuate Cannon Design’s distinction in design, innovation, and outstanding project delivery. During his tenure with the firm, Mr. Wiseman has served as practice leader for Cannon Design’s Southeast Region and a leading proponent of the firm's SMFO® methodology, providing leadership as Design Principal on projects across North America. As a President of Cannon Design, Mr. Wiseman is a member of the Board of Directors, and also represents the firm at the AIA Large Firm Roundtable. He received both his Bachelor of Science in Architecture and his Master of Architecture degrees from The Ohio State University, and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal upon graduation. In 2010, he was named a Distinguished Alumni of The Ohio State University at a ceremony on campus in Columbus, Ohio. He is registered in 45 States and 4 Canadian provinces, and is the recipient of 55 architectural design awards in North America. Mr. Wiseman’s work has appeared in many major publications including Architectural Record, Interiors, Contract, Interior Design, Progressive Architecture, and World Architecture. On two occasions his projects have been featured on the cover of USA Today. His design for the Richmond Olympic Oval, the speed skating venue for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics games, was described as the “crown jewel” of the games by NBC. While the site and the nature of the Olympics as a global event are full of opportunities to create award-winning architecture, it is the attention to stewardship and legacy that distinguished the design of the Oval. The building has received over 15 design awards, and was featured on CNN International, the NBC nightly news, and the Canadian broadcast system.
