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Enabling Creative Students to Make Stuff Happen Enterprise for the Whole Educational Journey

This session explores the issues and practices involved in supporting creative students and graduates to generate and sustain their own creative enterprises. It focuses on developing an entrepreneurial mindset, integrating studio practice, and applying learning to create solutions for the real world.

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Enabling Creative Students to Make Stuff Happen Enterprise for the Whole Educational Journey

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  1. Enabling Creative Students toMake Stuff HappenEnterprise for the Whole Educational Journey Libby Anson Student Employability & Enterprise Manager Enabling Enterprise for All IEEC 2017 www.gsa.ac.uk

  2. Considerations for this session Issues and practices involved in supporting creative students and graduates ….to generate and sustain their own creative enterprises Methodology for engagement Developing an entrepreneurial mind-set Integrating studio practice Applying learning Creating solutions for the real-world www.gsa.ac.uk

  3. Things Highly Creative People Do Differently* • Daydream • Observe everything • Work the hours that work for them • Take time for solitude • Turn life’s obstacles around • Seek out new experiences • Fail up • Ask big questions • People-watch • Take risks • View life as an opportunity for self-expression • Follow their true passions • Get out of their own heads • Lose track of the time • Connect the dots • Shake things up • Make time for mindfulness • Surround themselves with beauty * According to the Huffington Post, March 2016

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  5. ….or are they?

  6. Definition of Enterprise Education* To equip students/ graduates with : • An enhanced capacity to generate ideas and 2. the skills to make them happen * According to the QAA www.gsa.ac.uk

  7. All students are special Creative students are: • Less likely to have a conventional career path • More likely to have dyslexia and/or dyspraxia • Natural innovators • Tangential thinkers • Problem solvers www.gsa.ac.uk

  8. 2014 From 1909 2019 www.gsa.ac.uk

  9. 2014 From 1909 2019 www.gsa.ac.uk

  10. Phoenix Bursaries • Fine Art graduates 2014 missed this opportunity to launch • their professional careers. • With the support of The Scottish Government, GSA established • Phoenix Bursaries to help graduating students create a new body • of creative practice. • Phoenix Bursariesprovided : • An allowance towards living expenses • A location in which to work for up to 15 weeks • Up to 30 hours of supervision by an academic tutor • An allowance towards the cost of materials and consumables • The programme culminated in a group exhibition held at GSA in spring 2015. • away another two • 20 seconds to take away another two • What 3 values are you left with? • Do you live by your values? • Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  11. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  12. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  13. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  14. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  15. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  16. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  17. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  18. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  19. The Business of You Where are you? Where are you going? How will you get there? Strengths and weaknesses Goals Action planning Choices Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  20. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  21. Core Values Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? Authenticity Achievement Adventure Authority Autonomy Balance Beauty Boldness Compassion Challenge Citizenship Community Competency Contribution Creativity Curiosity Determination Faith Fairness Fame Friendships Fun Growth Happiness Honesty Humour Influence Inner Harmony Justice Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Meaningful Work Openness Optimism Peace Pleasure Purpose Popularity Recognition Religion Reputation Respect Responsibility Security Self-Respect Service Spirituality Stability Success Status Trust Trustworthiness Wealth Wisdom www.gsa.ac.uk

  22. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most 30 seconds to take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  23. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these 20 seconds to take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  24. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these Take away another two 20 seconds to take away another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  25. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these Take away another two … and another two What 3 values are you left with Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  26. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these Take away another two … and another two What 3 values are you left with? Do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  27. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these Take away another two … and another two What 3 values are you left with? How far do you live by your values? www.gsa.ac.uk

  28. The Business of You Write down the 10 things that you value most Take away three of these Take away another two … and another two What 3 values are you left with? How far do you live by your values? Do they inform the important choices you make? www.gsa.ac.uk

  29. 2014 From 1909 2019 www.gsa.ac.uk

  30. First Year Experience (from 2019) Cross-disciplinary collaboration Anatomy of Employability www.artanddesignemployablity.org Student-led workshops and debates Live Projects Working collaboratively with each other and with the creative sector to solve real-world challenges

  31. The Marshmallow Challenge* *c/o Hyper Island Each group has: • 25 spaghetti sticks • Some tape • One piece of string • A marshmallow Build a stand-alone tower that is able to sustain the weight of the marshmallow www.gsa.ac.uk

  32. The Marshmallow Challenge* *c/o Hyper Island Each group has: • 25 spaghetti sticks • Some tape • One piece of string • A marshmallow Build a stand-alone tower that is able to sustain the weight of a marshmallow www.gsa.ac.uk

  33. The Marshmallow Challenge* *c/o Hyper Island Each group has: • 25 spaghetti sticks • Some tape • One piece of string • A marshmallow Build a stand-alone tower that is able to sustain the weight of a marshmallow www.gsa.ac.uk

  34. End of session thoughts: Learning by doing = success + failure Reflection on learning is the foundation of critical thinking www.gsa.ac.uk

  35. End of session thoughts: Learning by doing = success + failure Reflection on learning is the foundation of critical thinking www.gsa.ac.uk

  36. Libby Anson l.anson@gsa.ac.uk

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