Course dates: March 2025
This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of past and current research on creative thinking. The sessions will cover theories of creativity and the behavioural and neural basis of creativity. Finally, each session will provide empirically grounded suggestions on how to stimulate your own creative thinking.
The first of three sessions for this course is on Tuesday, 4 March 2025, at 6:30pm. Closest station: Haggeston, London.
Course dates: March 2025
This is a 1-day course at Shoshin College.
A one-day beginners' workshop in both the practical skills for, and a philosophy of, computer based / interactive art using P5 and OpenProcessing.
I have distilled this from my practice over the last 15 years. And from material I've taught everywhere from postgraduate seminars at university, to small-town, rural schools in the heart of Brazil. This course is slightly unusual in that the goal is to teach both the practical / programming technique in conjunction with a philosophy of computational / interactive art.
Note that this 1-day, compressed version of the course is aimed at those who have at least some programming experience already. Students will be expected to be familiar with the concept of programming languages, variables, if statements, loops and arrays, objects and libraries.
This course it taking place on Saturday, 1 March 2025. We start at 9:30pm. The day will be split into 3 sessions. Location: 133 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG.
Please come with your laptop and your headphones!
Course dates: November 2024
This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.
This course provides an overview of the yoga discipline, integrating lessons on the core principles of the yoga philosophy, and offering gentle asana, breath work and meditation practice.
The course will be organised into three sessions that will cover different aspects of yoga.
Location: Elephant & Castle, London
Course dates: November 2024
This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.
This course invites participants to reimagine the role of technology through the lens of Human-Centered Design. Over three sessions, we will explore how ethical principles, intersectionality, and sustainability can be integrated into how we design and build things. Drawing from frameworks like Design Justice, Plurality, and Human-Centered Design, we will explore how technology can be more inclusive and equitable, for humans and for the planet.
Course dates: October 2024
This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.
Democracy is an extremely saturated word. Different people meant different things. Democracy in ancient Athens was completely different than today yet we use the same word to refer to both these things. Conservatives, leftists, liberals, anarchists, communists; they all talk about democracy yet they usually mean different things. Join us in a deep yet short dive into all the different theories of democracy and how each one compares to the rest.