Seminar Series 3: Lecture 2 - Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam

'Creative Communities: design, technology and wellbeing'

Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam, Head of the School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art led on the seminar: 'Creative Communities: design, technology and wellbeing'

Key ideas:

• Mundane imagination: the extrapolation of existing trends towards probable futures based on what we know about the present, but magnified.
• Creative imagination: being able to synthesise and explore a range of possible futures based on the ability to empathise with a range of perspectives about the present.
• Creative presents: the use of creativity and design to make ideas visible through the development of collective intelligence.
• 1% design: starting to explore and make tangible, through participative action research, an idea in the present even when the final outcome is not known.