"A question often asked is, "Are we creative?" It is human nature to improvise in response to any number of constraints or problems that confront us on a daily basis, from the earliest age onward." Educator/Artist Robert Kelly from "Educating for Creativity A Global Conversation"
photo Robert Kelly May 10, painting in his studio in Cochrane Alberta, Canada
Author, educator and artist Robert Kelly is an associate professor at the University of Calgary in Canada where he is academic coordinator of the Collaborative Creativity & Design Thinking for Innovation graduate program in the Werklund School of Education and an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts where he teaches design. His pioneering work in the area of collaborative creativity, creative development, design thinking for innovation in education and educational transformation has been recognized nationally and internationally. Robert has developed and prototyped several courses and programs in these fields in teacher education at his home institution and as an invited visiting scholar at numerous postsecondary institutions in Canada. His newest book entitled Collaborative Creativity: Educating for Creative Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2020) makes the case for the educational imperative of the development of collaborative cultures in education and across diverse organizations to maximize the innovation potentials of design and creative practice in both physical and virtual collaborative innovation networks. This work was preceded by his volume entitled Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation and Invention (2016) that makes the argument for systematic creative development as an essential pillar of educational practice. This book focuses on how systematic creative practice is operationalized across the educational spectrum to enable a culture of innovation and invention.