Stirring up new ideas
My PhD research explores mapping as a mode of engagement with the world that offers access to the complexity of our everyday lives and helps young people mobilise ideas and transform their sense of self and the world around them.
I want to offer a different dimension to how we foster creative thinking in learning spaces based on a process-orientated (rather than outcome-orientated) take on creative thinking as an everyday practice that has value in its own right in how we shape, and are shaped by, the world around us.
During March and April 2022 I set up a residency in a space generously gifted by Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed in Bristol and worked with a group of nine 17 year-olds from North Bristol Post-16 (Cotham) as co-researchers to the project. We experimented with mapping techniques and collectively transformed the space over a period of six weeks.
The residency ended with a session led by Suminigashi artist Sarah Amatt. You can watch a short film that uses images from the session here.