David Gauntlett

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Canada Research Chair in Creative Innovation and Leadership Professor The Creative School School of Creative Industries Toronto, Ontario david.gauntlett@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 556386

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David Gauntlett joined The Creative School as Professor of Creative Innovation and Leadership in January 2018. He was previously Professor of Creativity and Design, and Director of Research, at Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.

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Bio/Research

David Gauntlett joined The Creative School as Professor of Creative Innovation and Leadership in January 2018. He was previously Professor of Creativity and Design, and Director of Research, at Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.

His teaching and research is about creative processes, self-initiated everyday creativity, and cultures of making and exchanging. He is the author of several books, including Creative Explorations (2007), Making is Connecting (2011, second edition 2018), and Making Media Studies (2015). His research has been funded by multiple awards from the UK Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC), the European Union (Horizon 2020), and other funders.

He has made a number of popular online resources, videos and playthings, and has pioneered creative research and workshop methods. From 2014-17 he was also external examiner for the MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He has worked with a number of the world’s leading creative organisations, including the BBC, the British Library, and Tate. For over a decade he has worked with LEGO and the LEGO Foundation on innovation in creativity, play and learning.


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