PZ Pittsburgh: Participatory Creativity

Participatory Creativity: Placing a Do-It-Together Theory of Creativity into Practice


During this two-hour interactive workshop session for educators, Project Zero researcher Edward Clapp will engage participants in a series of fast-paced “maker” activities that emphasize the do-it-together nature of participatory creativity. There will be a particular emphasis on the various roles that young people may play when they participate in creativity—and the profiles of participation that may emerge for them along the way. The ultimate goal for this session is to provide participants with first-hand experience in group-based creative problem solving activities, while also offering participants strategies for incorporating these activities—and others like them—into an array of learning environments. In the end, participants will walk away from this session with an increased awareness of the participatory and distributed nature of creativity and innovation—and a vision for how this work may be incorporated into their home teaching and learning environments.