so we can all see images in our minds I
want you to have a think about the most
unusual image that comes to you in the
clouds you may know Sir Ken Robinson he
said that our imagination is the unique
human capacity to bring into our minds
things that aren’t present and to be
you might know this tree our imagination
frees our mind it frees our mind to
think differently to play with
possibilities we daydream and we left
our minds wander these processes must
not be undervalued especially in our
education system some of the best ideas
come from the most unexpected moments
imagine the a be filled with a thousand
butterflies there’s a nod to that over
there from Antony heads work imagination
is everywhere imagination invites
potential and possibility it’s about
where we might be able to go and how we
might be able to get there in every
present situation it helps us explore
the liminal space between ideas and
materials to make meaning I believe that
everybody is born with creative
potential I wouldn’t do my job if I
didn’t believe that children suffer
imagination is powerful it’s everywhere
they inhabit their imagination children
have an innate capacity to be curious
they’re driven to learn they’re
explorers they’re creative knowledge
builders they don’t stop imagining
thinking feeling learn
through all their senses inside and
outside school at home in the light and
in the dark and sometimes it’s scary but
they need their imagination they need
those worlds to live in as adults we can
invite children to have the freedom to
follow their fascinations to explore
environments of inquiry and children ask
amazing questions can we bring the
outside inside how big does a map have
to be to be inside it I’m sure that was
a story from Baugus about a cartographer
who made a map the size of the world but
actually our education system is closing
these ideas down and it’s urgent we are
faced with an education system that’s
led by a performance that agenda and
children should not be closed down by
numbers they shouldn’t be defined by
their grades they’re more than a school
so I think it’s really important that we
think about doing things differently the
arts particularly allow us to explore
different versions of ourselves they
invite children to engage with
open-ended and multimodal activities in
a hundred languages expressing their
ideas they children sing and act and
play and draw and dance they move
between these modalities so easily it’s
natural to them imagine a world where
children are allowed to be involved in
serious play every day in spaces full of
lights and openness where their ideas
aren’t closed down but they’re opened up
so as adults we need to be those
companions in children’s learning we
need to support children’s creative
potential and culture those
habits of mind that are absolutely
lifelong and life work life white so
Myra provocation today is you know how
best do we nurture children’s
imagination how can we make that a
lifelong habit and we have some examples
of from school without walls our project
in bath where’s school that walls is
doing school differently
it’s opening up possibilities for the
city as a campus for learning children’s
are agents of their own learning they’re
active citizens Co designing learning
with adults that care alongside them
they’re exploring their imagination
their curiosity and their questions and
we give them time and space and quality
of attention to do that another example
is the house of imagination launched a
couple of years ago by Sir Ken Robinson
at last by University a studio of
children young people to work alongside
creative professionals to think about
doing things differently together
working alongside mathematicians artists
scientists architects to empower
children to think about how they can
express their imagination and express
their ideas so as Andrew said the
forests of imagination is an invitation
for everyone to think about their
imagination the arts have the power to
be transformative in our lives Andrews
very modest he is a creative genius and
he gave birth to the idea of gardens by
the bay in Singapore as he said earlier
and actually what we’re doing is
creating pop-up Contemporary Arts +
architecture spaces alongside a creative
learning program that invites everybody
to think about the power of nature in
our lives Andrew said forest is the home
of imagination the imagination is
everyone so adults are also inspired by
the power of children’s imagination a
child’s drawing turned into a massive
rabbit in Queens we’re currently in
Kings made the spoken word
poet toby thompson who lives with us
every year as part of forests he’s a
champion of young people’s creativity we
want to create spaces that inspire and
feed the creativity of our children
forests imagination deliberately brings
the inspiration experience and
sensations of nature and wildness to our
doorsteps
it puts creativity on the pavement it’s
about the creative ecology of the city
with collaboration across generations
and between industries so I have devoted
my professional life and personal life
possibly to researching children’s
creativity and imagination and I want
everybody to take responsibility for
nurturing children’s imagination and
creativity so that it becomes a lifelong
habit children are enemies of boredom
and we need to create exciting learning
that is irresistible but the future is
uncertain we live in a world that’s
changing rapidly and children’s learning
is becoming too packaged and delivered
the World Economic Forum has proposed
recently I mean that in 2020 the three
key skills that children young people
need are creativity critical thinking
and complex problem-solving so we need
to attend to that the idea of active
imagination opens up the world for
better ways of thinking and working
together it helps us to learn to learn
to move like artists from open
possibility to accomplishment an
actualization it offers a sense of
shared beneficial responsibility and
beauty that becomes powerful when it’s
nurtured within our communities within
bath so I’ll end by inviting you to the
forests of imagination outside to
explore the answers to questions we
haven’t even asked yet and I agree with
David Armand that I think that
children’s imagination will save the
world you
want you to have a think about the most
unusual image that comes to you in the
clouds you may know Sir Ken Robinson he
said that our imagination is the unique
human capacity to bring into our minds
things that aren’t present and to be
you might know this tree our imagination
frees our mind it frees our mind to
think differently to play with
possibilities we daydream and we left
our minds wander these processes must
not be undervalued especially in our
education system some of the best ideas
come from the most unexpected moments
imagine the a be filled with a thousand
butterflies there’s a nod to that over
there from Antony heads work imagination
is everywhere imagination invites
potential and possibility it’s about
where we might be able to go and how we
might be able to get there in every
present situation it helps us explore
the liminal space between ideas and
materials to make meaning I believe that
everybody is born with creative
potential I wouldn’t do my job if I
didn’t believe that children suffer
imagination is powerful it’s everywhere
they inhabit their imagination children
have an innate capacity to be curious
they’re driven to learn they’re
explorers they’re creative knowledge
builders they don’t stop imagining
thinking feeling learn
through all their senses inside and
outside school at home in the light and
in the dark and sometimes it’s scary but
they need their imagination they need
those worlds to live in as adults we can
invite children to have the freedom to
follow their fascinations to explore
environments of inquiry and children ask
amazing questions can we bring the
outside inside how big does a map have
to be to be inside it I’m sure that was
a story from Baugus about a cartographer
who made a map the size of the world but
actually our education system is closing
these ideas down and it’s urgent we are
faced with an education system that’s
led by a performance that agenda and
children should not be closed down by
numbers they shouldn’t be defined by
their grades they’re more than a school
so I think it’s really important that we
think about doing things differently the
arts particularly allow us to explore
different versions of ourselves they
invite children to engage with
open-ended and multimodal activities in
a hundred languages expressing their
ideas they children sing and act and
play and draw and dance they move
between these modalities so easily it’s
natural to them imagine a world where
children are allowed to be involved in
serious play every day in spaces full of
lights and openness where their ideas
aren’t closed down but they’re opened up
so as adults we need to be those
companions in children’s learning we
need to support children’s creative
potential and culture those
habits of mind that are absolutely
lifelong and life work life white so
Myra provocation today is you know how
best do we nurture children’s
imagination how can we make that a
lifelong habit and we have some examples
of from school without walls our project
in bath where’s school that walls is
doing school differently
it’s opening up possibilities for the
city as a campus for learning children’s
are agents of their own learning they’re
active citizens Co designing learning
with adults that care alongside them
they’re exploring their imagination
their curiosity and their questions and
we give them time and space and quality
of attention to do that another example
is the house of imagination launched a
couple of years ago by Sir Ken Robinson
at last by University a studio of
children young people to work alongside
creative professionals to think about
doing things differently together
working alongside mathematicians artists
scientists architects to empower
children to think about how they can
express their imagination and express
their ideas so as Andrew said the
forests of imagination is an invitation
for everyone to think about their
imagination the arts have the power to
be transformative in our lives Andrews
very modest he is a creative genius and
he gave birth to the idea of gardens by
the bay in Singapore as he said earlier
and actually what we’re doing is
creating pop-up Contemporary Arts +
architecture spaces alongside a creative
learning program that invites everybody
to think about the power of nature in
our lives Andrew said forest is the home
of imagination the imagination is
everyone so adults are also inspired by
the power of children’s imagination a
child’s drawing turned into a massive
rabbit in Queens we’re currently in
Kings made the spoken word
poet toby thompson who lives with us
every year as part of forests he’s a
champion of young people’s creativity we
want to create spaces that inspire and
feed the creativity of our children
forests imagination deliberately brings
the inspiration experience and
sensations of nature and wildness to our
doorsteps
it puts creativity on the pavement it’s
about the creative ecology of the city
with collaboration across generations
and between industries so I have devoted
my professional life and personal life
possibly to researching children’s
creativity and imagination and I want
everybody to take responsibility for
nurturing children’s imagination and
creativity so that it becomes a lifelong
habit children are enemies of boredom
and we need to create exciting learning
that is irresistible but the future is
uncertain we live in a world that’s
changing rapidly and children’s learning
is becoming too packaged and delivered
the World Economic Forum has proposed
recently I mean that in 2020 the three
key skills that children young people
need are creativity critical thinking
and complex problem-solving so we need
to attend to that the idea of active
imagination opens up the world for
better ways of thinking and working
together it helps us to learn to learn
to move like artists from open
possibility to accomplishment an
actualization it offers a sense of
shared beneficial responsibility and
beauty that becomes powerful when it’s
nurtured within our communities within
bath so I’ll end by inviting you to the
forests of imagination outside to
explore the answers to questions we
haven’t even asked yet and I agree with
David Armand that I think that
children’s imagination will save the
world you
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