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Key research themes
1. How can warm-ups be designed to enhance engagement and motivation in digital and hybrid creativity workshops at work?
This research area explores the role of warm-up activities as purposeful playful interventions to foster positive experiences, social interaction, and psychological need gratification in remote or hybrid creative workshops, which often suffer from reduced participant engagement and collaboration. Understanding how specific warm-ups align with psychological theories is essential for designing workshops that optimize motivation and creativity in evolving work contexts.
Key finding: The study develops a categorized Warm UP Set specifically targeting analogue, digital, and hybrid workshop contexts, linking warm-up activities to fulfillment of psychological needs such as relatedness, security, and... Read more
Key finding: Through expert interviews and focus groups, this study identifies that digital creative collaboration suffers from lack of fluid interaction and emotional cues, highlighting the need for immersive facilitation tools. The... Read more
Key finding: This paper emphasizes that creative leadership within Communities of Practice (CoPs) is key to sustained professional growth and creative collaboration, especially in virtual and geographically dispersed teams. Creative... Read more
2. What pedagogical strategies effectively cultivate creativity and original thinking in formal education through workshops?
This theme investigates diverse educational methodologies, theoretical frameworks, and curriculum designs that are implemented within workshops to foster creativity among learners ranging from K-12 students to higher education. It is concerned with translating creativity theory into classroom practice via active learning, playfulness, divergent thinking, and interdisciplinary integration, as well as examining motivational factors that sustain creative learning processes in educational settings.
Key finding: The paper identifies that managing classrooms to encourage divergent thinking and integrating creativity with academic rigor relies heavily on teachers establishing supportive environments where creativity is valued and... Read more
Key finding: This work advances basic pedagogical principles centered on distinguishing convergent and divergent thinking and advocates for classroom climates where divergent thinking is explicitly encouraged through discipline-based,... Read more
Key finding: Evaluating extracurricular creativity workshops revealed that playfulness and cross-disciplinary exposure significantly enhanced students’ creative confidence and the ability to make connections beyond their disciplines.... Read more
Key finding: This study operationalizes a multivariate creativity model incorporating cognitive, conative, emotional, and environmental factors within a creative course context, using reflective diaries and interviews. Findings highlight... Read more
3. How are creativity workshops structured and assessed in higher education and specialized professional programs, and what are their impacts on learner outcomes?
This research area delves into the design, facilitation, and evaluation of creativity workshops in higher education—across disciplines such as engineering, design, and entrepreneurial studies—and professional training contexts. It highlights curriculum integration strategies, experiential learning frameworks, motivational theories, and digital augmentation for creative skill development, as well as institutional challenges in fostering authentic creativity that aligns with disciplinary and workforce relevance.
Key finding: This paper describes a successful undergraduate course balancing theoretical concept delivery with hands-on, team-based creativity and innovation sessions tailored for engineering students. The course advances meta-cognitive... Read more
Key finding: Quantitative feedback from fashion design students revealed that workshops significantly bridge the gap between theoretical instruction and practical industry demands, enhancing technical proficiency and creative confidence.... Read more
Key finding: This work provides a comprehensive review of motivational theories as they relate to creative learning, emphasizing intrinsic motivation's role in sustaining creativity and academic performance. It integrates control-value... Read more
Key finding: By longitudinally analyzing three decades of course materials and student work, this paper distills evolving pedagogical strategies and shifting student attitudes toward creativity in higher education. It evidences sustained... Read more
Key finding: The study elaborates on the Torrance Incubation Model (TIM) as an instructional scaffold that enables embedding creativity skill development into higher education lesson plans without curriculum disruption. Case examples... Read more