IVE’s Applied Creativity Labs (ACLs) are designed to give children and young people the creative behaviours and thinking skills that when applied to real world challenges help them develop innovative solutions.
“What we have concluded,” wrote Land, “is that non-creative behaviour is learned.”*
We believe the opposite is also true; that creative behaviour cannot only be learned but taught.
IVE’s Applied Creativity Labs (ACLs) aim to give children and young people the creative behaviours and thinking skills they need to develop innovative solutions to real world challenges, in the classroom or via remote online delivery.
We begin the process by presenting young people with an overview of what the ‘challenge’ is (ie. air pollution), we then deliver our bespoke creativity training and give them access to a resource-bank of ‘experts’ from industry, business and universities. Young people then explore, develop, refine and prepare to pitch their best original, applicable solutions to the challenge to a panel, dragon’s den style. The best ideas are considered for further development.
Each Applied Creativity Lab includes invaluable partnership contributions from a variety of experts.
ReVision connects young people with experts in city planning and placemaking, landscape architecture, heritage and waterways. Delivered in partnership with Ignite Yorkshire, with thanks to the Canal & River Trust, CITU, Civic Engineers, Leeds Civic Trust, Re-Form Landscape Architects and Yorkshire Design Group, and funding from National Lottery Heritage Youth Accelerator Fund.
Delivered in partnership with BARCA; providers of universal and targeted services for young people in Leeds, The Prince’s Trust and the West Yorkshire Police Calderdale Early Intervention Team, to support young people through the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to Creative Minds, Inspire Ignite, Lucy Randall-Smith, Mental Health In Business, Noah’s Ark Centre, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation, and TimeOut Calderdale.
Delivered in partnership with Lawnswood School, Shire Oak Primary School and St Matthews Church of England Primary School. With thanks to Asda, Food Revival, Future Farmers; Leeds City Council, Harewood Food & Drink Project, Leeds Food Partnership, Magpie Creative Agency, Rethink Food, Waste-Food Solutions; and Zero Waste Leeds.
Delivered in partnership with Manor Wood Primary, Mount St Mary’s Catholic High School and John Smeaton Academy. With thanks to Leeds City Council, The University of Leeds, Mott MacDonald, Engie, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Magpie Creative Communication Agency, Siemens, The Priestley International Centre for Climate and Sustrans.
Applied Creativity Labs focus on real world challenges, such as air pollution, food sustainability, single-use plastic and waste reduction. We run labs for children and young people in any setting.
IVE’s Applied Creativity Labs are built on a 20+ year history of developing young people’s creativity skills (IVE formerly known as CapeUK). Their development is timely. The Programme for International Student Assessment(PISA) tests a sample of 15-year-olds across the world every three years and plans to assess creative thinking in 2021. Creativity, originality, problem-solving, critical thinking and ideation are all future skills identified by the World Economic Forum for 2022.
A full lab includes 1 full initial day, up to 6 weekly hourly sessions and one final half day pitch event. The Labs are free to schools and youth groups as part of our charitable programme offer.
By applying creativity to real-world challenges – such as air pollution in Leeds – learning becomes ‘real’ and young people take an active part in creating their own futures. We enhance and develop the creativity of children, young people and also staff in schools (via our CPD programme ‘Developing Independent Learners’).
‘After a fantastic introductory whole year group session last week, both myself and the children were incredibly excited to start thinking of ideas to promote clean air today.
Before the project began, I naturally thought about different children of varying abilities and wondered who would be fully engaged with the project. What I have noticed in this session is that ALL children were fully engaged in the sharing of ideas. It was fantastic to see children who can be quieter in group situations share their ideas and really start to think about what could be possible (no limits).
It was refreshing to observe the children grab the opportunity of being creative thinkers, so often at school, they are bound by structured lessons and before embarking on long writes, we give them model texts and guide them through a series of activities. Thank you ever so much!’ -Teacher, Manor Wood Primary
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Loading...If you would like us to bring an Applied Creativity Lab to your school or youth group or would like to get involved as an ‘expert’ offering your perspective on any of these problems please contact: sarah@weareive.org.
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