Imaginative practice

The ideation workshop promotes curiosity, inventiveness and playfulness through bridging imagination and hands-on practical activity in an open source environment. In this, the workshop encourages the explorative use of ideation tools, both analogue and digital (broadly defined). The exploration does not exclude the role of theory or hypothesis in the ideation process (applying new and diverse methodologies and critical theories to design) but rather reflects how practical problem solving and theory can work hand in hand. The workshop approach, moreover, is inspired by pedagogical and formative thinkers in educational psychology, such as John Dewey, and Leo Vygotsky. For example, Dewey, in his focus on means in education, sees experience as helping to form thinking, whereas Vygotsky, in his cultural historical theory, places culture as the raw material of thinking. Source, on the latter: Glassman, M. (2001). Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice. Educational Researcher, 30(4), 3-14.