About Us
The Creativity and Invention Working Group is made up of faculty and students from across RIT. We have focused our efforts on:
- Bringing together the arts, sciences, humanities, and technology;
- Encouraging a dialogue on the role of creativity in teaching, learning, research, and leadership;
- Building collaboration among faculty, students, colleges, and disciplines in co-curricular activities and courses.
The CIWG began as a grassroots faculty initiative in the spring of 2006. With support from the College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Lynn Wild, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Services at RIT; and Dr. Katherine Mayberry, Vice-President for Academic Affairs; we are organizing two sets of activities for the Academic Year 2006-07:
"UNLIKELY PARTNERS" COLLABORATIONS
CIWG members are working together to explore the questions that arise when we look for unexpected links between our disciplines. These unlikely partnerships have produced joint lectures and collaborative student projects.
The first faculty partnerships paired individuals from English and Engineering, and also from Information Technology and Economics. Their lectures model for students the interaction, challenges, and broadening of perspective that result when a subject is examined from an unlikely point of view.
In a student-directed Unlikely Partner project, teams of students are working together to explore and construct problems and solutions that span multiple disciplines.
SYMPOSIUM: "Creativity: Technology: Invention"
May 11, 2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology
This day-long symposium on creativity and invention is open to faculty, staff, and students. It will feature guest speakers, performances, exhibits, faculty panels, and workshops.
More about our work:
http://www.rit.edu/~930www/NewsEvents/2007/Feb02/m2.html