Promoting creativity in learning:

Theoretical Basis of Creativity

Ignite! and the Arts, Science and Technology

We recognize that the arts have a significant role to play in our social and cultural understanding, and that science and technology can drive forward many solutions to our needs and challenges. The dynamic equation can be expressed thus: science and technology can provide us with the tools for progress, but the arts will reveal the sensibilities we need to use them humanely and for the common good.

However, while science, technology and the arts are essential components of our survival and well-being, and need to be part of our life-long learning and comprehension, it is our capacity for creative thought that will enable us to translate need into solution, ideas into reality, imagination into innovation.

And that is what Ignite! aims to do.

We respect and work with these disciplines and other branches of learning, but we aim to make connections across and between them. We encourage imagination, play, invention, intuitive connections, new and different perceptions, alternative analysis, synthesis and transformation. We explore and promote creativity as applied imagination, and innovation as applied creativity.

For a further explanation of what we mean, and why we believe creativity should be at the heart of our education system, listen to Sir Ken Robinson and his inspirational talk at TED in 2006.