Creating creative processes: a workshop demonstrating a methodological approach for subjects between the sciences and the arts.

There is a lack of ‘explicit education’ of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. The awareness of creative methodology is not only important for professionals in the creative arts (composers, performing artists and art practitioners) but also for developers of tools that support creative processes. This article discusses the background and context of the more general issues of creativity in higher education and then moves on how a hands-on workshop was developed specifically for the computer music / music technology related degrees enabling experiential learning of a wide variety of creative methodology. It discusses the pedagogical methodologies behind the workshop, the running of the workshop itself and examples of the specific exercises and the different contexts in which it has been integrated.