workshops + speaking
I design and deliver workshops on emerging technology, creativity, and the future of art and design education. These sessions explore how new tools reshape creative practice, why art remains essential in technical fields, and how educators can navigate rapid technological change without losing sight of fundamentals.
Why Art Matters in 21st Century Learning
As education chases metrics and technical skills, art gets relegated to optional. This makes the case for why creative practice isn't enrichment: it's a form of thinking that technical fields actually need.
Autonomy and Authorship in Algorithmic Creation
When machines generate images and designs, what does authorship even mean? Examining creative autonomy in an age of aesthetic algorithms, and whether democratized tools actually democratize creativity or just flatten it.
Emerging Technology in Creative Practice
New tools arrive weekly, each promising transformation. This session cuts through the noise to examine how technologies like AI and digital fabrication actually reshape creative work, and how to adopt them critically rather than blindly.
Teaching Creativity in Protocol-Driven Worlds
Digital tools demand protocol mastery. Creativity demands lateral thinking. This tackles the central paradox: how to teach students to work within rigid systems while maintaining the experimental thinking that drives actual innovation.
Computation, Art & Craftsmanship
What happens to craft when making becomes computational? Exploring whether concepts like mastery, materiality, and authorship survive the shift to algorithm-driven production, or whether we're just nostalgic.
Digital Fabrication as Creative Practice
Moving from technique-driven instruction to idea-driven making. How to structure digital fabrication pedagogy that prioritizes experimentation over software tutorials, and why this matters beyond the makerspace.