Exploring the future of creative learning

Design meets life Healthcare is a rich territory for user- /human- centred and inclusive design, and new ideas of open design and DIY design; the collision of human need and systems, emotion and technology is unparalleled. Our list is [...]

MPavilion opens in Melbourne This month the MPavilion, an 'innovative civic space and cultural laboratory for the community to engage and share' opens in Melbourne, kicking off a four-month programme of events from over 500 collaborators. There'll [...]

Banging the drum for creative education We're always interested in what Bill Lucas at the Centre for Real World Learning is up to; his long term, evidence-based, explorations of the value of creative education bring a welcome even-handedness across arts and [...]

STEM undergraduate awards So the XPrize this is not, concerned as it is with themes of Defense, Robots and Automotive, but maybe that's all the more reason to bring a bit of prosocial design thinking to The Telegraph STEM Awards. Open [...]

Building spaces to build the future Recently we've been asked about how to plan spaces for making, in schools, in community spaces and in civic spaces. We think this can start in a classroom, and that vision and [...]

A floating university. Inspiration - or a hint of what's to come? If I was likely to graduate with over £50,000 of personal debt, I'd be thinking quite carefully about what else I could do with that money. One [...]

Why would you study a 'useless' subject? While talk of robots and being human is the regular soundtrack at FixEd, the immediate challenges of assessment and paid work are more likely to influence subject choice. We all need [...]

How do our kids beat the robots? OK so FixEd selects is meant to be external links, and we're proud to be included in this piece, but you'll forgive us when you hear how neatly this Radio [...]

Design skills - not just for designers? We do love a good statistic and the Design Council are masters. From design skills contributing £209bn to the UK economy to people using design skills being 47% more productive, their recent [...]

3,000 young creatives under one roof at New Designers If you did want to take the temperature of the discipline, what better place to start than New Designers, which showcases the work from over 200 creative courses [...]

How to get more girls into 'techy' STEM clubs We've been getting a bit irritable on the subject of girls engagement with tech. Using caps on Twitter and everything - I know right! But really. You'd think a) [...]

My Naturewatch Camera: could we love it more? Every now and again a project comes along that just sums it all up. This is one for us; sure, maybe it's not solving any big problem, but it's [...]

'Design students lack workplace skills' Creative agency Michon’s Designing the Future report has been released, finding that graduates lack management skills, universities aren't preparing students enough and designers should step in and share their insights. An interesting read, though some of [...]

Not the average show of chairs and polished products As determined improvisers the polish of Milan Design Week doesn't usually hold much for us, but last month U-Joints focus on a much neglected design component – the joint – caught our [...]

Technology for good We like a balanced argument, so, exhausted by talk about how advances in technology are replacing jobs and becoming a threat to our society as we know it, we keep an eye out for examples [...]

Prototypes influencing SDGs The 17 Sustainable Development Goals target poverty, gender equality and climate action by 2030... things we should all be able to sign up to. Steps Centre explores an interesting angle and discusses how smaller, potentially more [...]

Connect with respect - Childnet filmmaking competition   We do like a competition, not because we're competitve, oh no not us. Actually the opposite in a way, in that where Fixperts is concerned we firmly believe that the learning [...]

Inclusive fashion design – bring it on! 'One size fits all' was the promise of mass-manufacturing, once bringing financially accessible products to the masses. Times have changed, expectations have changed and now, new manufacturing technologies mean its a [...]