Pedagogies of Invention

Abstract

Having been asked to reflect on my experience as a supervisor of creative research projects, I need to start with a disclaimer: my experience in supervising began only about five years ago. This was in the co-supervising of projects in graphic design, literary theory and in the pedagogy of an online design studio, and more recently in supervising creative writing projects. These projects, understood as research by creative practice or research by project are outside my customary field. Indeed, they are outside the paradigm of fields in which I was trained – the text-based world of the humanities. My research is generated from texts in order to make claims about their concepts, techniques and assumptions. This is especially at the intersection of philosophy and literary expression, and particularly where this intersection is generative of ‘the new’. My training is viewed normally as being in some kind of distinction from ‘creating’ or ‘creativity’.