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How to Play in Slow Time
Creativity, Pedagogy, Process
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This book considers the role and function of creativity for anchoring educational practices both in universities and beyond. Crucially, the educational practices in question model responsive, careful and attentive encounters with an unfolding present. Reinterpreting the ground-breaking creative processes of leading artists, writers, musicians and dancers, this book offers a toolkit of invitations and encounters that demonstrate how creativity can be practiced â and taught â as a competency that cultivates expertise in harnessing experiment, curiosity, somatic intuition and collaborative practices of world-building. In doing so, the book mounts a vital critical call for developing languages, approaches and methods in both digital and face-to-face learning environments that reconsider creativity as a literacy foundational to all learning settings. Vital to diverse disciplines, fields and professional sectors, this book boldly changes the conversation around the conspicuous role creativity takes in shaping our learning and teaching futures.
Bryoni Trezise is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory (Palgrave, 2013) and Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child (Routledge 2023).
Charlotte Farrell is a performance maker and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage (Routledge 2021), and co-founder of performance company Body of Work with Emma Maye Gibson.
Alexandra Tálamo is a performance artist and sessional Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and National Insititute of Dramatic Art. She has published in Performance Research (2023) and Convergence (2022). She has presented artistic work at The Unconformity (2021) and Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (2018).
Maria White is an educator and artist living on unceded Bidjigal land. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of New South Wales and is the Academic Course Coordinator for the Common Subjects at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Charlotte Farrell is a performance maker and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage (Routledge 2021), and co-founder of performance company Body of Work with Emma Maye Gibson.
Alexandra Tálamo is a performance artist and sessional Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and National Insititute of Dramatic Art. She has published in Performance Research (2023) and Convergence (2022). She has presented artistic work at The Unconformity (2021) and Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (2018).
Maria White is an educator and artist living on unceded Bidjigal land. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of New South Wales and is the Academic Course Coordinator for the Common Subjects at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Preface: Encountering This Book
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
About the Authors
1 Teaching towards Creating (in) Slow Time
â1 When Teaching Is Making
â2 Why This Book Now?
â3 How to Read This Book
â4 Listening to the Itch
â5 Creativity as a Literacy
â6 Practitioner Profile: Charemaine Seet
2 Practising How to Pay Attention
â1 Introduction
â2 Going with the Flow
â3 The Journey of Attention
â4 Cultivating Tender Attentiveness
â5 The Hum of Creativity
â6 Practitioner Profile: Kirthana Selvaraj
3 Playing with Not-Knowing
â1 Introduction
â2 Ways We Play
â3 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Following the Joy
â4 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Combinatory Play
â5 Creating a Playful Environment: Critical Distance
â6 Conclusion
â7 Practitioner Profile: Pablo Latona
4 Feeling Moving as Thinking
â1 Introduction
â2 Theorising Bodythinking
â3 Conclusion
â4 Practitioner Profile: Emma Maye Gibson
5 Interlude: An Invitation to Rest Workshop
â1 Introduction
â2 Creating the Conditions for Restful Play
â3 Imaging the Restful Body
â4 Building a Nest
â5 Conclusion: Gifting Rest
6 Shifting Perspectives through Imaging
â1 Introduction
â2 Thinking in Images
â3 Discovering through Images
â4 Learning to See Differently: Disrupting Habits
â5 Imaging to Facilitate Embodied Creative Practices
â6 Imaging to Encounter the Other
â7 Imaging to Reimagine: Wider Implications
â8 Conclusion
â9 Practitioner Profile: Victoria Hunt
â10 Practitioner Profile: Karlie Noon
7 Modelling Imagination
â1 Introduction
â2 Modelling in Creative Practice
â3 Teaching Interdisciplinary Creativity through Modelling
â4 Practitioner Profile: Nathan Harrison
â5 Practitioner Profile: Alice Osborne
8 Collaborating Outwards
â1 Introduction
â2 Collaboration in Creative Practice
â3 Collaborative Classroom Experiments
â4 Outwarding
â5 Practitioner Profile: Riana Head-Toussaint
9 Futuring Learning in Ricochet Times
â1 Futuring
â2 Synthesising towards Outwarding
â3 On the Precipice
â4 Holding the Time
â5 Practitioner Profile: Nitin Vengurlekar
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
About the Authors
1 Teaching towards Creating (in) Slow Time
â1 When Teaching Is Making
â2 Why This Book Now?
â3 How to Read This Book
â4 Listening to the Itch
â5 Creativity as a Literacy
â6 Practitioner Profile: Charemaine Seet
2 Practising How to Pay Attention
â1 Introduction
â2 Going with the Flow
â3 The Journey of Attention
â4 Cultivating Tender Attentiveness
â5 The Hum of Creativity
â6 Practitioner Profile: Kirthana Selvaraj
3 Playing with Not-Knowing
â1 Introduction
â2 Ways We Play
â3 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Following the Joy
â4 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Combinatory Play
â5 Creating a Playful Environment: Critical Distance
â6 Conclusion
â7 Practitioner Profile: Pablo Latona
4 Feeling Moving as Thinking
â1 Introduction
â2 Theorising Bodythinking
â3 Conclusion
â4 Practitioner Profile: Emma Maye Gibson
5 Interlude: An Invitation to Rest Workshop
â1 Introduction
â2 Creating the Conditions for Restful Play
â3 Imaging the Restful Body
â4 Building a Nest
â5 Conclusion: Gifting Rest
6 Shifting Perspectives through Imaging
â1 Introduction
â2 Thinking in Images
â3 Discovering through Images
â4 Learning to See Differently: Disrupting Habits
â5 Imaging to Facilitate Embodied Creative Practices
â6 Imaging to Encounter the Other
â7 Imaging to Reimagine: Wider Implications
â8 Conclusion
â9 Practitioner Profile: Victoria Hunt
â10 Practitioner Profile: Karlie Noon
7 Modelling Imagination
â1 Introduction
â2 Modelling in Creative Practice
â3 Teaching Interdisciplinary Creativity through Modelling
â4 Practitioner Profile: Nathan Harrison
â5 Practitioner Profile: Alice Osborne
8 Collaborating Outwards
â1 Introduction
â2 Collaboration in Creative Practice
â3 Collaborative Classroom Experiments
â4 Outwarding
â5 Practitioner Profile: Riana Head-Toussaint
9 Futuring Learning in Ricochet Times
â1 Futuring
â2 Synthesising towards Outwarding
â3 On the Precipice
â4 Holding the Time
â5 Practitioner Profile: Nitin Vengurlekar
Index
This book will appeal to teachers in artistic and creative disciplines in universities, as well as beyond universities â in professional or lifelong learning settings and educational specialists in diverse fields.