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Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer, Renessa Ciampa Brewer
Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer, Renessa Ciampa Brewer
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
As a graphic designer, I was drawn to the CCT Program in part because I desired to strengthen my thinking skills as a creative professional. Through being reflective, I aimed to “get more in touch” with my process to better understand it and see how I might improve my approaches. Scholarship on reflective practice in design education and design practice is a growing body of literature, which inspired this synthesis project. This paper looks at Schön’s theories of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, models for reflection in the design process provided by Ellmers, Brown, and Bennett, and Reymen, and various reflective practice …
Creating A Life Of Art: A Personal Journey Towards Creative Freedom, Kristen Hanks
Creating A Life Of Art: A Personal Journey Towards Creative Freedom, Kristen Hanks
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
This paper is a journey through my life as a Creator, from early childhood to the present. As I have moved through the process of writing my creative history, I have been able, for the first time, to take an introspective, reflective look at who I am as a person and an artist/creator. Using skills introduced to me in the Critical And Creative Thinking Program, it has been possible for me to undertake the task of confronting my past, my present and my future. My journey towards creative freedom begins in early childhood as I struggle with being a creative …
The View Finder: Discovering My Artist Path Through Photography, Ivy Frances
The View Finder: Discovering My Artist Path Through Photography, Ivy Frances
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
This is a personal narrative of how I applied Critical and Creative Thinking skills to photography and, in the process, found my artistic self. As a young girl, I was an emerging artist under the tutelage of creative parents. I took photographs of my family and of the beautiful landscape where we lived. Tragedy struck my child’s world twice; first, when my father died, and a second time when developers destroyed the natural areas where I played. These events shut down my inner awareness, stunted my growth as a risk taker and the artist in me went dormant. The Critical …