Creativity and Innovation – Excellence in the expressive arts and technology

In this session, representatives from the Expressive Arts and Technologies Excellence Groups will cover their findings, and consider the common themes of creativity and innovation which permeate across these two curriculum areas:

• the importance of creative teaching approaches
• developing creative skills in our young people
• assessment which takes creativity into account
• the connections with the needs of the economy

The session will also consider how creativity can be used as a driver for interdisciplinary learning. The new Learning and Teaching Scotland resource on the Charles Jencks Fife Earth Project demonstrates the creative connections between the arts and technologies.

Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray, Head of School of Architecture at University of Strathclyde and Principal of Gordon Murray Architects. Chair of the Technologies Excellence Group.

In 2004 Gordon was appointed External Examiner at the University of Ulster: School of Architecture in Belfast and was subsequently appointed Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Head of School at the University of Strathclyde in 2007. In 2008 he participated in a conference and workshop in Auckland, New Zealand on behalf of Scottish Government and OECD in Paris on Inclusion and Integration through Innovation.

Gordon was President of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland from 2003-05 and a Trustee of the Lighthouse: Scotland's National Centre for Architecture, Design and the City from 2003-09. A member of the Board of Architects Professional Examination Authority Scotland, he was also recently elected Chair of SCHOSA – 2010/12 – The Committee of Heads of Schools of Architecture across.