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Our Manifesto
Between March & April 2019 Creative Academic, #creativeHE and the Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education (CIRCE) facilitated a conversation in the #creativeHE forum aimed at developing a manifesto to advance thinking about imagination and creativity in learning and educational practices in higher education. Much of the discussion and the background papers to inform discussion are published in issue #13 A & B of Creative Academic Magazine together with a number of personal manifestos produced by participants. The outcomes of our discussion are captured in our manifesto. Crafted by Paul Kleiman, it synthesises and transforms the ideas and perspectives expressed into an uplifting and poetic statement of beliefs and intentions. The manifesto is a public declaration of beliefs, a provocation and a call to action. The ‘towards’ signifies a journey not a destination, and we welcome as many as possible to join us in this creative adventure, to comment, to add your own ideas and statements, to share with us your own personal manifesto and, importantly, to act in your own contexts and situations. You can join our open ongoing conversation by clicking the link to our Facebook #creativeHE group https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE/ Personal Manifestos Created by participants in the discussion. What would your personal manifesto be like? 
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Creativity in HE Manifesto (April 2019)
 Manifesto for Creativity in Higher Education by Creative Academic, #creativeHE & Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://www.creativeacademic.uk/manifesto.html. | ||||
OUR OPEN PROCESS FOR CREATING THE MANIFESTO
TOWARDS A MANIFESTO TO ADVANCE IMAGINATION & CREATIVITY IN HE LEARNING & EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE (March-April 2019)
Manifestos are common in the field of education. They are a public declaration of aspirations for a different and better educational future. Such documents identify and justify concerns, new needs and interests and propose changes to current practice. They provide a platform around which interested practitioners and institutions can discuss what matters and what they care about.
The need for higher education to pay more attention to the growth of imagination and the creative development of learners has been recognized for many years. As we get deeper into the 21st century the future has turned out to be even more uncertain, turbulent, challenging and disruptive than we ever imagined at the start of the millennium. An education system that does not commit to the development and recognition of learners as whole, imaginative and creative beings is not enabling them to prepare themselves for a future that none of us can imagine.
As a starting point for collective, bottom-up action the Creative Academic, #creativeHE and CIRCE networks will, through an open discursive process, develop a manifesto to Advance Imagination and Creativity in HE Learning and Educational Practice. The outcomes of the manifesto discussion will be published in the April issue of Creative Academic Magazine (CAM#13) during World Creativity and Innovation Week (April 15-21, 2019). This will be our collective contribution to this important annual global event.
OPEN INVITATION
To join the discussion between March 8th - April 21st 2019 please visit one of our two public forums
Creative Academic' group on Linked-in https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8755256/
#creativeHE group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE/
During the conversation we will invite participants to share their views on a number of questions, including:
Q1 What are the most important reasons for why higher education needs to encourage and enable learners to develop and use their imaginations and creativity and invest in educational practices that encourage and facilitate such development?
Q2 What assumptions are we making about the use and value of imagination and creativity?
Q3 What are the problems and issues associated with encouraging imagination and creativity in HE learning and educational practices?
Q4 What does being creative mean in different disciplinary contexts? What might we mean by enabling learners to develop and use their imaginations and creativity in different higher education contexts?
Q5 What are the important values, propositions and principles that need to underpin such a manifesto to encourage higher education to invest in educational practices that facilitate the development and recognition of learners’ imaginations and creativity? How would these be expressed in a personal manifesto?
Q6 What actions might be undertaken at the level of individual practitioner, department/ subject group, institution and whole system, to realise aspirations contained in the manifesto for a more creative future?
Norman Jackson & Chrissi Nerantzi
Co-Founders Creative Academic, co-facilitators #creativeHE
Gillian Judson
Executive Director Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education (CIRCE)
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ROAD MAP
WEEK 1 BEGINS FRIDAY MARCH 8 Q1 What are the most important reasons for why higher education needs to encourage and enable learners to develop and use their imaginations and creativity and invest in educational practices that encourage and facilitate such development? DISCUSSION PAPER 1: Steps to a Manifesto to Advance Imagination and Creativity in Higher Education Learning and Educational Practice
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WEEK 2 BEGINS FRIDAY MARCH 15 Q2 What assumptions are we making about the use and value of imagination and creativity? Q3 What are the problems and issues associated with encouraging imagination and creativity in HE learning and educational practices? DISCUSSION PAPER 2
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WEEK 3 BEGINS FRIDAY MARCH 22 What do imagination and creativity mean in the HE context? DISCUSSION PAPER 3
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WEEK 4 BEGINS FRIDAY MARCH 29 What are the important values, propositions, principles and actions that need to underpin a manifesto to encourage and enable learners to use and develop their imaginations and creativity, and gain recognition for their creative efforts and achievements? How would you express these in your personal manifesto? DISCUSSION PAPER 4: PERSONAL MANIFESTOS
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WEEK 5 BEGINS FRIDAY APRIL 5 Actions to encourage and enable creativity expressed in ONE PAGE PERSONAL MANIFESTOS and discussions arising from their content visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE/ WORK BEGINS ON CREATING AN OVERARCHING MANIFESTO |
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WEEK 6 BEGINS FRIDAY APRIL 12
PUBLICATION & PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF DRAFT MANIFESTO FOR HIGHER EDUCATION prepared by Paul Kleiman and drawing on ideas and themes from all the personal manifestos
WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION DAY/WEEK APRIL 15-21
https://www.wciw.org/
APRIL 15 PUBLICATION OF CREATIVE ACADEMIC MAGAZINE CAM#13 TO CURATE THE DISCUSSION & PERSONAL MANIFESTOS OUR CONTRIBUTION TO WCIW
https://www.wciw.org/
APRIL 15 PUBLICATION OF CREATIVE ACADEMIC MAGAZINE CAM#13 TO CURATE THE DISCUSSION & PERSONAL MANIFESTOS OUR CONTRIBUTION TO WCIW
