Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has anything to teach the rest of us.
In this episode, Donald Clark and John Helmer focus on the people who make things: artists, designers, film crews, painters, musicians. Both of them have history in different parts of this territory. John has been a working musician and songwriter, and worked in advertising and arts PR. Donald sat on the board of Skillset and spent ten years as deputy chair of the Brighton Dome and Festival.
They take us on a journey, from Ruskin’s drawing classes to punk’s screen-printed sleeves, art schools, the golden section … and what a skill is worth once the machine has copied the homework.
In this episode:
- Introducing Creators and Learning
- Four Thinkers: Ruskin to Robinson
- Applied Arts and Design
- Screen and Audiovisual Arts
- Visual Arts and the Art School
- Performing Arts and the Grassroots
- AI and the Means of Production
- Summing Up
Links and resources:
- John Ruskin — The Elements of Drawing (1857): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30325/30325-h/30325-h.htm
- Herbert Read — Education Through Art (1943)
- Elliot Eisner — The Arts and the Creation of Mind (Yale, 2002)
- Ken Robinson — “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” (TED, 2006): https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity
- Ken Robinson — All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (1999)
- John Carey — The Intellectuals and the Masses (1992)
- Bert Weedon — Play in a Day
- Andy Clark — on the predictive brain
- Tomorrow’s Warriors — grassroots jazz development
- New Generation Jazz
- Brighton & Hove Music Service
- Donald Clark — AI and Productivity (Kogan Page): https://www.koganpage.com/hr-learning-development/ai-and-productivity-9781398623316
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