Schedule

All conversations are held in the Institute of Creative Technologies, 5.30-6.30pm. All conversations are free to attend. Reserving a place will guarantee you entry, and ensure that we have ample refreshments.

Date	Topic	Speakers
Sept 12	Tools for collaboration. What is transdisciplinary collaboration? What has it got to offer? How do you do it?	Howard Rheingold (Author of Smartmobs, expert on virtual communities) Andrew Hugill (Composer, writer, and director of the Institute of Creative Technologies)	Archive
Sept 19	Representing and developing creative ideas: peeking inside our notebooks.	Toby Moores (CEO of Sleepydog, creators of Playstation 2's Buzz: The Big Quiz) Sue Thomas (Writer and Professor of New Media)	Archive
Sept 26	How can Web 2.0 assist creativity?	Hussein Zedan (Technical Director of the Software Technology Research Laboratory) Stephen Brown (Professor of Learning Technologies and Director of Creativity East Midlands)	Archive
Oct 3	Traditional media and new media: extending the bounds of creativity?	Chris Joseph (Arts Council Digital Writer in Residence) Kate Pullinger (Award winning novelist and writer)	Archive
Oct 10	Composition, creativity, and transdisciplinary work.	Leigh Landy (Composer and experimentalist) Pip Greasley (Sonic Artist and Sound Designer)	Archive
Oct 17	Creative swarms: enhancing creativity through an understanding of the hive-mind.	Aladdin Ayesh (Software architect and consultant) Bret Battey (Composer and installation artist)	Archive
Oct 24	Interdisciplinarity, media art, and networks.	Dave Everitt (Freelance writer and artist) Simon Mills (Senior Lecturer in New Media)	Archive
Oct 31	Why do we abandon or switch ideas, methods and views whilst being creative?	Andrew Hugill (Composer, writer, and Director of the Institute of Creative Technologies) Mohammad Ibrahim (Technology fusion, artificial life, and design methodologies)	Archive
Nov 7	On Creative Computers.	Neil McBride (Computer engineer and systems designer) Martin Stacey (Human computer interaction, creative computer systems)	Archive
Nov 14	The creative process: views from practice and analysis.	Bruce Mason (New media advocate) Peter Shillingsburg (Textual scholar)	Archive
Nov 21	Creating spaces: virtual and real.	Martin Richardson (Holographer) Martin Michel (Product and Spatial Design)	Archive
Nov 28	Creativity and Cash.	Bob Betts (Managing Director, Smith of Derby clockmakers) Adrian Dent (raku ceramicist)	Archive
Dec 12	Managing creativity in games design.	Ben Mathis (Games artist and educator)	Archive

Creativity Conversations are supported by NLab www.narrativelab.org

CREEM is funded by AHRC, Arts Council England, DTI and ESRC through the Nature of Creativity scheme.