This presentation was given by Anna Cutler at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.

1. Anna Cutler
Director of Learning
TATE

2. Joyful Encounters
Generating the conditions for
creative learning in the visual arts

3. What is a Joyful Encounter with Art?
coming face to face with the unknown
• A positive affect
• A relational interaction
• An intellectual challenge
• A sensory experience
• An invitation to an idea
+ An opportunity to act

4. What does this afford?
• Enjoyment in learning
• Learner led activity
• Permission to challenge beyond curriculum limits
• Flexibility & contingency
• Creative & critical thinking
• Invitation to new skills and ideas
• Physical and environmental change
• Different forms of adult & social relationships
• Risk-taking
• Social, emotional, physical and intellectual
development

5. What are the conditions?
Content Space
Method Time
Intervention
context context context context context context context context context
context

6. The Funnel
Identify: changes for best conditions (out of the room)
Create: the best conditions in the room
Design: beyond the educative
Act: agency for the learner
Involve: communities
Review: change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ebz6Pl16c

7. Table Questions
If this is of value
If this generates creative learning opportunities
How can this be useful to schools?
What are the opportunities, needs and
challenges?