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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Dr. David Gauntlett is Canada Research Chair in Creativity at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, where he leads the Creativity Everything lab. He is the author of several books, including Creative Explorations (2007), Making Media Studies (2015), and Making is Connecti...

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Bio/Research

Dr. David Gauntlett is Canada Research Chair in Creativity at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, where he leads the Creativity Everything lab. He is the author of several books, including Creative Explorations (2007), Making Media Studies (2015), and Making is Connecting (2011, second edition 2018). He has made a number of popular online resources, videos and playthings and has pioneered creative research and workshop methods. He has worked with a number of the world’s leading creative organizations, including the BBC, the British Library, and Tate. For 12 years he has worked with LEGO and the LEGO Foundation on innovation in creativity, play and learning. His teaching and research are about creative processes, self-initiated everyday creativity, and cultures of making and exchanging.

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 an 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 organizations, 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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