Category Archive for "Creative Pedagogies" | Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Book Chapters / An Arts-Informed Qualitative Research Synthesis into Clinical Improvisation in Music Therapy: Researcher Reflections

Authors: Katherine Wimpenny (Co-lead Research, DMLL, CU) and Anthony Meadows (Associate Professor of Music Shenandoah University, US). In this case study, we profile, synthesize, and represent qualitative research regarding the ways music therapists engage in, and make meaning from, clinical improvisation. We share the synthesis process. We highlight how qualitative research synthesis was used to..

Blog : Drama activities for Health and Wellbeing: Looking back and looking forward / Part 3

5th December 2016
Tags: ageing, Arts, Arts Gymnasium, dementia, informal learning, Participant Researcher, theatre

The Arts Gymnasium is an innovative research project which uses theatre and drama activities to contribute to the quality of life and positive well-being of people living in Coventry. It addresses the difficult question of how can drama and the arts make a positive impact on people’s lives. It is work in partnership between the..

Blog : Drama activities for Health and Wellbeing: Looking back and looking forward / Part 2

27th November 2016
Tags: ageing, Arts, Arts Gymnasium, dementia, informal learning, Participant Researcher, theatre

The Arts Gymnasium is an innovative research project which uses theatre and drama activities to contribute to the quality of life and positive well-being of people living in Coventry. It addresses the difficult question of how can drama and the arts make a positive impact on people’s lives. It is work in partnership between the..

Blog : bewilderED: An Experiment in Using Non-Digital, Transmedia Story Telling & Mystery for Exercise Science Education.

18th November 2016

For a long time I have been obsessed with ‘The Mysterious Package Company’ which can be found here: Mysterious Package Company.You can read more about the Mysterious package Company at their website or here. Their tag line ‘Stories you can Touch’, really caught me, and I was instantly interested to find out more about this idea of..

Blog : Arts Gymnasium: A project which aims to use theatre, drama and arts based activities to raise general levels of health and well-being

4th November 2016

Earlier in October we celebrated the launch of the Arts Gymnasium project. The project, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, is work in partnership between the Belgrade Theatre, Age UK Coventry and Coventry University. The project uses theatre and arts activities to contribute to the quality of life and positive well-being of people living in..

Project : We Have A Situation: Coventry!

4th November 2016

We Have A Situation:Coventry! is a DMLL project involving Helen Varley Jamieson, a media artist, playwright, performer, director and producer and the ‘International Artist in Residence’ 2016, in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (FAH), at Coventry University from November 17 – 24th. During the residency period, coordinated by Rachelle Vader Knowles, Helen will lead a week long workshop to involve both..

Project : Curious Oddities

2nd November 2016

Overview Curious Oddities explored students’ self-representation through creative arts pedagogy. Under the facilitation of Tom Ellis, a Birmingham-based Artist; students from across campus were asked to create imaginative and curious 3D sculptures. These natural, personal and unconventional creative forms of representation offered induction students opportunity to reflect upon their ideas and values as they started..

Project : Immersive Telepresence in Theatre

21st September 2016
Tags: international collaboration, online learning, theatre

Project leaders: Dr Tom Gorman, Dr Tiina Syrja, Senior Lecturer in Acting & Dr Mikko Kanninen, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Partners: Coventry University & University of Tampere (Finland) Overview: This project explores international co-operation in acting in a foreign language within a system that promotes a more environmentally sustainable model, eliminating (or at least diminishing) the need to..

Insights / Creative Pedagogies

The evaluation of the use of creative pedagogies though the lab’s project ‘Disrupting the Thesis’ revealed the following key points through the evaluation process: Delivery of teaching and learning activity This pilot project involved Sociology students working with professional filmmakers to record stories from research participants who are based in Coventry market, creating opportunities for..

Blog : Life as an Activator – Interview with Graduate Lauren Heywood

17th August 2016

Lauren Heywood graduated in 2014 from her Fine Art degree, and has been working at the DMLL since May 2015. We met up with our Graduate Activator as she lifts the lid on what life is like working within the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. Being at the forefront of teaching innovation, we figured the best..