Round Table on "What is the Future of Creativity?" presented by the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity on April 3, 2025
Moderated by Stain Baines with guests: Dr. Lynn Fels, Tyler Simmonds, and Dean Verger.
In this session we will explore how the arts support students as they engage in social and emotional learning, explore their concept/perception of self, and further connect with themselves (and each other).
This session explores how ChatGPT can support both educators and creative professionals. Participants will learn techniques to enhance creative lesson plans and develop inclusive materials aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
Jacqueline will welcome Chantal Georges and Nichelle Smith, members of the PLAYYFUL Women of BLOOM Collective, to be in conversation about creating their life from inside their vision and sharing their creative gifts while choosing to be well.
Dr. Matt McGuire shares how learners can explore a variety of digital technologies to develop and enhance ideas, products, or processes through creative expression and innovative designs to solve issues that affect them, their communities, and the world.
Are you inside the box in your environment? Is creative thinking limited by your work or the rules of the system. This session will take a look at creativity and imagination ideas when the environment you are in is inside the box.
Creative Arts activities can play an important role in CBU’s engagement with the five mandates of the strategic plan. We invest in our students when we provide courses and activities that foster creative expression.
In this jam, Paul shares his research findings from his thesis investigation into the imaginative capabilities of educational leaders and the processes underpinning their development.
In this conversation Peter will talk with guests Luc Lalonde, Sebastian Gaisseert, and other tenants from the Rideau Community Hub, a decommissioned High School, reimagined as a “third space” for community flourishing. Be prepared to be inspired!!
Join us to learn about Dragon Dreaming a consensual participatory strategy employed for planning projects that build collective wisdom, enabling individuals and communities to adjust creatively and positively to change.
Ugliness is what we try to avoid, but it always comes unexpectedly. What can we do when ugly moments come? Does ugliness tell stories? Do ugly moments sing? In this Idea Jam, Ming-Yu will invite us to listen to and reveal the beauty in ugliness.
Kweku Aacht creates cutting edge soundtracks for dance theatre companies, facilitates brave spaces for essential and often uncomfortable conversations, and holds executives and leaders in the possibility of purpose, creativity, well-being and fulfillment.
In this conversation Peter will talk to guests about how they create the space and conditions to foster creativity and well being in their learning culture.
How to find motivation and innovation within you when you sometimes just don’t feel the fire.
In this session we will explore the ways that the modern world has impacted/affected creativity and how we embrace or resist current forms of creative practice through intergenerational perspectives.
Dr. Patrick Howard, Professor in the Faculty of Education at Cape Breton University, NS will be my guest to share his knowledge of sustainability education, and its connections with health and well-being in people and communities.
In a wide range of collective revelation, we will explore why we bother with creativity at all.
Does assessment kill creativity? In this session we will discuss the role assessment plays in learning, and how assessments can empower students to embrace creativity.
Learn about a new approach using Creative Spatial Activities developed by Stephen Sillett and tied to Clean Language Interviewing.
Participate in an imaginative collective to shape an (inter)national roundtable on play, imagination and creativity. Engage with others to explore the possibilities!