Vanderbilt Creative Campus

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Vanderbilts Curb Scholars and Creative Campus residential fellows convened for a creative practice opening retreat Aug. 19 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center.

The students flexed their creative muscles by building Rube Goldberg machines that complicated the simple act of putting a bottle or can into a recycling bin.

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The Curb Creative Campus Initiative seeks to ignite, illuminate, and nurture creative practice on campus.

Funded by the Curb Family Foundation and coordinated by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt , the initiative includes the Curb Scholars Program, a proposed minor in creative enterprise and public leadership, and a campus-wide creativity Initiative guided by a multi-disciplinary faculty task force.

Learn more about the Curb Creative Campus Initiative, our innovative projects and programs, and the catalysts that bring the creative campus to life.

Be a Catalyst

ABOUT

ABOUT THE CURB CREATIVE CAMPUS INITIATIVE

The world needs creative problem solvers who can harness their disciplinary knowledge to create positive change and advance innovative solutions and policies. The Curb Creative Campus Initiative responds to this call by creating sustainable programs to ignite, illuminate, and nurture creativity and innovation on Vanderbilt's campus.We seek to place creativity at the center of campus life through programs thatsupport course and curricular innovations, especially those that integrate media, design, creative problem solving, and expression with rigorous disciplinary training;create a community of catalysts--faculty, staff, students, and Nashville community members who thrive on making the non-routine happen in their classrooms, research, and work;transform campus spaces through serendipitous, out-of-the-ordinary encounters and experiences that break mundane conventions of everyday routines and induce heightened thoughtful engagement and curiousity;provoke conversations that bring together unexpected parties and inspire novel approaches to engaging ideas, debates, and problems;illuminate extraordinary and everyday creative lives, including the common creative process that threads through artistic, scientific, entrepreneurial, and design work; and promote creative problem solving and build capacity of faculty, staff, and students to imagine ideas and lead others in making innovations a reality.The Curb Center at Vanderbilt had been at the forefront of a national movement focused on creativity as a means to advance educational reform and enlien campus life. The unique aspects of the Curb Creative Campus Initiative--endowed Curb Scholars program, an emphasis on sustainable programs, the development of a corps of catalysts, and social scientific research--distinguish Vanderbilt's Curb Creative Campus Initiative from all other campus-based programs.

Catalyst Launch Event

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Catalyst Launch Event with Carlos "Mare139" Rodriguez April 13th

CATALYSTS

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Curb Team

Catalysts are the core of the creative campus—imagining, inspiring, and invigorating creativity and innovation. Catalysts thrive on making the non-routine happen in their classrooms, research, work, and campus.

PROJECTS

Campos-Pons at Vanderbilt

Creative Campus Bootcamp

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Catalyst Launch Event

2010 Opening Retreat

Encounters - Creative Process

Creative Problem Solving

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Big Al Carter Conversation

Residential Experience

Creative Lives

Pilots: Projects and Events

With passion and imagination, catalysts develop projects that produce serendipitous, unexpected experiences, spur conversations and collaborations for the public good, illuminate everyday and extraordinary creative lives, and help others realize their creative dreams.

Catalyst pilots are supported through Curb Creative Campus Innovation grants. Creative Campus Signature Events are produced by the Curb Center.

2010 Opening Retreat

Discover campus through a creative lens.

Students shot these photos with their camera phones., capturing unique perspectives of everyday objects on Vanderbilt campus and exploring the unexpected and non-routine.

Creative practice bootcamp

Vanderbilt's First Annual

Creative Practice Bootcamp
Design ThinkingParker Gates, Stanford d.schoolThis workshop offers an extremely fast-paced immersive experience in design thinking. Youll progress through four full cycles of the design process to solve a real world challengeand gain experience in fundamental design thinking tenets: need finding, being human-centered, rapid prototyping, visualization, and team dynamics.Habits of Creative Problem SolvingEric Booth, Teaching artist, Actor, Author, International arts learning consultantWhat are the habits of mind of creative engagement? What are humans doing when they invest themselves in ANY subject matter, be it shaping clay or crafting newcomputer code? This workshop will experientially explore the basic-basics of creative capacity--both the overlooked specific skills that manifest in the common words like brainstorming and creative problem solving, and the ways we can develop those capacities to increase creative flow in any subject matter. This workshop will be a lively mix of activities, presentation, provocative questions and takeaways from a teaching artist who has often been described as one of America's most dynamic teachers.ImprovisationSecond City ImprovDo you wish you could be more spontaneous and innovative in the classroom, when presenting your work, or on project teams? Do you wish you were better at listening, building on others ideas, or using humor to break through difficult moments? The Second City Master Class Workshop will immerse you in the fundamentals of improvisation.Giving and Receiving Critical FeedbackLiz Lerman, Macarthur Genius Grant Fellow and ChoreographerAre you in a position to critique someone elses work? Are you seeking a way to get useful feedback on your own work? Liz Lermans Critical Response Process is a widely-recognized method that nurtures the development of creative works-in-progress through a four-step, facilitated dialogue between creators and those giving feedback.Graphic FacilitationPeter Durand, CEO of AlphaChimp UniversitySeeking to enhance your ability to facilitate conversation in the classroom, meetings, or presentations? This workshop offers a fast-paced introduction to graphic facilitation and visual mapping of conversations and ideas. You will learn basic capacities such as lettering, illustrating, mind mapping, and systems thinking as applied to scribing with broad applications on campus and beyond.StorytellingGlenis Redmond, Poet, StorytellerSeeking to improve your ability to share your story and ideas? This workshop is for faculty, staff, and students interested in harnessing the fundamentals of storytelling, narrative, and poetry to bring concepts to life in the classroom, engage others in creative projects or research, and present their story in a compelling way in job interviews and essays.

Nick Navatta from Alphachimp Studio blogs about his experience at the Curb Creative Practice Bootcamp, including images of the bootcamp and scribings by him and Perrin Ireland. Read his post on the Alphachimp Studio blog .

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Encounters with Creative Process

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Scratch, spin, and mix with DJs Gummy Soul and Kids Meal March 17th

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Tag, burn, and bomb with Carlos "Mare139" Rodriguez April 13th

Encounters with Creative Process

Encounters create out-of-the ordinary moments that break faculty, staff, and students from their everyday routine.

Encounters with Creative Process offer the opportunity for hands-on experience with creative practice-—whether it’s scratching on turntable, creating your own graffiti tag, or designing project-runway style—guided by masters of the craft.

Design on the Fly

Pump up the Volume

Generative Conversations

Big Al Generative Art Exhibit and multi-disciplinary conversation April 19th

Creative Problem Solving

Creative Lives

Faculty Staff

Curb Team

CURB SCHOLARS PROGRAM

The Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise & Public Leadership at Vanderbilt prepares students to invent and imagine, to develop and implement innovations, and to critically engage how innovation impacts the public good.The Curb Scholars program is the first of its kind in the nation. Based on a deep respect for both academic andexperiential learning, our Scholars engage in creative practice workshops and leadership salons led by top faculty, artists, and executives, coupled withinternships and projects that build Scholars creative portfolios.Modeled after the career of Mike Curb - philanthropist, founder of Curb Records, and former lieutenant governor of California - the program emphasizes fluency across private and public sectors, commitment to service, and a critical approach to decisions affecting the nations creative and cultural life.Program ComponentsOur Curb Scholars program offers opportunities that build Scholars creative dexterity:Creative Leadership SalonsThrough salons, Curb Scholars engage in informal conversations and hands-on workshops with leaders from across the creative ecosystem. Students learn best when leaders animate their conversation with their tools of the trade and when students experience the creative process for themselves. Past guests include the co-creator of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, a Marc Jacobs fashion designer, a chef-entrepreneur, the lead designer of Hatch Showprint, Nashvilles Bike "czar," Mr. Jalopy (a leader of the Maker Movement), and social entrepreneurs.Creative Practice Workshops Through creative practice workshops, Curb Scholars experiment with the creative process--problem solving, brainstorming, improvising, storytelling, asking provocative questions, synthesizing ideas, using humor, recombining materials and ideas, diagnosing problems, prototyping, and pitching their innovations.Creative Campus Service. Curb Scholars develop a creative portfolio through their unique contributions to Vanderbilt's creative campus--photographing or filming events on campus; hosting a creative campus radio show; blogging; designing webpages or websites; planning a festival or creative production; designing iPhone apps to solve campus problems; founding new technology-based student organizations, working within the healing arts at Vanderbilts Medical Center, and other activities contributing to Vanderbilts creative campus. Public Leadership Case Studies Through case studies, Curb Scholars explore the challenges of navigating the complex system of creative enterprise and expression--a system defined by globalization of cultures, emerging technologies, intellectual property rules, and changing demographics.One-on-one Interviews with Leaders & Entrepreneurs Curb Scholars interview top leaders and policy makers working in the arts, entertainment and media industries, technology, social enterprise, and the government to inform their understanding of creative careers and decision-making.Summer Public Leadership Internship Between their junior and senior years, Curb Scholars participate in a paid summer internship in Washington, DC. The internship offers important on-the-job skill building and networking, and the opportunity to engage the policy context where they will ultimately lead and innovate.Senior Legacy Project As seniors, Curb Scholars develop a unique creative project that harnesses their expertise and interests such as an entrepreneurial venture, a documentary, a new composition or production, a new social media platform, or a festival, and which contributes to the vitality of the campus community.The Qualities of a Curb ScholarA Curb Scholar exercises a curatorial voice. Scholars organize pieces of reality to create new meaning for others through exhibitions, festivals, digital media, music compilations and written work.A Curb Scholar uses creative expression and enterprise to advance the public good. Scholars employ their unique passion and creative energies to serve others, build community, address public problems, and mobilize others toward common goals.A Curb Scholar is a catalyst and collaborator. Scholars thrive on bringing together diverse skill sets, perspectives, and interests toward producing something novel and useful.A Curb Scholar celebrates the process of discovery. Scholars take risks, embrace messiness, tolerate ambiguity, and delight in surprise.A Curb Scholar has a deep appreciation for workmanship, design, craft, beauty and heritage in addition to valuing novelty and the unconventional.

ACADEMICS

Creative Campus Courses
Spring 2012Creative Campus Course: Humanities 161 Creativity and CrisisProfessors Bruce Barry, Vanessa Beasley, Steven Tepper and Mel ZieglerEveryday is a new crisis. We are surrounded by global forces that challenge leaders and citizens to live, work, and govern differently. But, do we have the creative capacity to respond to these crises in ways that advance social well being, justice, peace and prosperity? HUM161 will bring together expertise from from sociology, management, communication, and art to explore the fascinating intersection of creativity and crisis.This one-time spring 2012 course will be team-taught by 4 of Vanderbilt's top teachers with guest appearances from experts near and far with real world experience managing, reporting and analyzing crises.

Past Creative Campus Courses

Minor in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership
The proposed Minor in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership is for future leaders from any discipline who seek to harness their creativity for the public good, along with those who need training in the theories and methods of creativity and innovation in hopes of becoming pioneers and leaders in their field.The program offers students the opportunity to develop their core creative capacities: 1) an aptitude to invent and imagine, 2) the expressive agility to communicate an innovation’s advantages and consequences, 3) the dexterity to develop and implement those innovations within their field of choice, and 4) the ability to critically evaluate whether products, practices, and policies positively impact the public good. The program will be truly interdisciplinary, harnessing the expertise of faculty and knitting together theories and methods from diverse disciplinary threads: art, communication, design, engineering, ethics, media studies, music, organizational and entrepreneurial studies, psychology, political philosophy, public policy, and sociology. Students integrate the minor with their anchor disciplines through their capstone thesis or creative project. By design, the CEPL minor cannot stand alone and relies upon students’ mastery of their respective disciplines.

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Past Creative Campus Courses
Creative Campus Commons Course: Exploring Creative LivesProfessor: Kate Daniels, English; Spring 2011Do you lead a creative life? When we think of creativity, we often think of writers, artists, filmmakers, or musicians. And although our Vanderbilt community includes artists in many genres and media, our campus is also filled with individuals engaged in everyday and extraordinary creativity in fields and areas other than the arts. This course will offer students the opportunity to critically engage the full range of what is meant by a creative life, and to draw out the stories of the everyday creative lives of Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff.We will explore a variety of approaches to eliciting stories from members of the Vanderbilt community, paying close attention to how people talk about creativity in their life, the moments they feel most creative, and how they think about risk-taking, playfulness, imagination and the creative process. We will experiment with an array of media as we illuminate and share these stories with the broader Vanderbilt community. Students will develop a deeper appreciation of how creativity plays out in their own lives, and the ways in which creative practice can foster resilience, resourcefulness, and meaning that can be drawn upon throughout life.Meeting time: Two hours every other week. On The Commons campus.
Creative Campus Commons Course: I need to fix that! Problem solving and designing changeProfessor: Elizabeth Long Lingo, Director, Curb Programs in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management, Owen GSM; Spring 2011We are faced with problems big and small on a daily, even moment-to-moment basiswhether its wishing we knew when the next Vandy Van might arrive to the desire to help the homeless and support the environment. How are some people better able to develop solutions and create change than others? How do we make larger problems tractable and enlist others to contribute to and adopt our solutions?This is a course for those students interested in making positive change in their world, and who want to become better problem solvers and innovators. We will draw from the latest theories of design thinking, creativity, and social change as we engage hands-on with the problem solving process.Meeting time: The course will meet every Tuesday for one hour.
Creative Campus Commons Course: SAY WHAT?!?!?! Provoking Creative Conversations.Professor: Steven Tepper, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Associate Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy and Tim Pierce, Director, Executive programs, Owen GSM; Spring 2011We have all been involved in conversations where we feel like were following a scripted routine. How are some people able to engage others and curate conversations that bring about differing perspectives, create unexpected insights, and keep everyone fully engaged?This class is for students who seek to more deeply understand the art and science of conversations from cocktail parties and improvisation to interviews and panel discussions among experts on difficult topics.Meeting time: The course will meet every Friday for one hour.
Interactive Portable Media and Cell Phone ArtProfessor Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Studio Art; Fall 2010 Use of inexpensive media devices such as cell phones, music players, and other portable electronics to create campus-wide participatory events, including art projects, web interactive movements, unexpected musical environments, and grass roots media campaigns. Collaborative and solo projects.

Innovation grants awarded
Communicating GenderClaire Sisco-KingCommunication StudiesVirtual Eco VillageDoug FisherComputer Science and Computer EngineeringDyer Star Party Science and Art MashupsRocky Alvey and Lynn McDonald Dyer ObservatoryARTOBERJen Cole Metro Nashville Arts ComissionCreative Expression of the Illness NarrativeA. Scott PearsonVanderbilt University Medical CenterCreative Lives and Story Booth ProjectBlake GoreOwen Graduate School of Management; Jim Bellar Vanderbilt Career Center; and Amy Wolfe VUCastCage/Cunningham/VORTEX—The Big EventMichael Holland Blair School of MusicFall for the ArtsNancy DwyerCommons Program CoordinatorCollaborATEChase Cox, Tracie Prater, Brian Gibson, Graduate Students in EngineeringSinging FingersAmelia Winger-BearskinStudio ArtsMusicals that MatterJim LovensheimerBlair Radical RevisionJen HoltWriting CenterExperiential Color Theory on a PathAmy BlackmanCreative Services

INNOVATION GRANTS

Call for Innovation Grant Proposals
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which offers Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to produce original ideas and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change.The program seeks to encourage pilots that place creativity at the center of campus life —•integrating into the curriculum media, design, creative practice and expression;•transforming campus spaces through serendipitous, out-of-the-ordinary experiences; •starting engaging and uncommon conversations across disciplines or among unlikely participants — with a special emphasis on demonstrating how creativity can help broaden public deliberation and the common creative process intrinsic to cultural, scientific, entrepreneurial, and design work; and •fostering individuals’ creative and expressive potential—the skills they need to imagine ideas and then lead others in making those innovations a reality.WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Interested parties should submit their ideas in 500 words or less (or an equivalent 3 minute video, slideshow, etc.) to sara.m.lee_vanderbilt.edu. Please address the following:•How does the idea meaningfully contribute to a more creative, non-routine campus experience? •What realistic challenges and constraints might you face?•How will you document and reflect upon your experience? What resources might you need to do so?Project grants could range from $250 to $5,000. The review process for larger grants will be significantly more competitive. DEADLINEAll proposals must be submitted by 5pm on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. PROCESS and TIMELINEProposals will be reviewed by a committee comprising creative campus faculty task force members, students, and staff. Winning proposals will be selected by August 1. The implementation process will progress from Fall 2011 through Spring 2012, and will culminate in a showcase of innovations at a catalyst event in Spring 2012.

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About Curb Creative Campus
The Creative Campus idea is inspiring education reform and enlivening campus life at colleges and universities across the country. Vanderbilt University has been at the forefront of the national conversation and launches its own initiative in Spring 2011. The initiative is coordinated by the Curb Center and guided by a multi-disciplinary faculty task force under the leadership of Arts and Science Dean Carolyn Dever.The initiative seeks to place creativity at the center of campus life by—• integrating into the curriculum media, design, creative practice and expression;• transforming campus spaces through serendipitous, out-of-the-ordinary experiences; • connecting and supporting catalysts across disciplines, with a special emphasis on the common creative process that threads through artistic, scientific, entrepreneurial, and design work; and• fostering individuals’ creative and expressive capacities—the skills and knowledge they need to imaginatively engage with the demands of the 21st century and lead innovations and creative solutions that advance the public interest.

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WHATS HAPPENING

Whats Happening

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What's Happening?

Dyer Observatory Science and Art Starparty Mashup, SLC, Dec. 2, 2011The Price of Free, Robert Levine, Curb Center Free Public Lecture, Nov. 2, 2011, 4:30 pmEnroll now! NEW Class, HUM 161 Creativity and Crisis, Spring 2012, Thursdays 2:30-5pmMaria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard at VanderbiltOctober 9-18, 2011Fall for the Arts, Commons Lawn, Sept. 16 4-8 pmA variety of activities, performances, stories, and works on display, along with a dinner menu from 4:30-7:30 pm. First Annual Creative Practice Bootcamp Friday, September 22011-2012 Innovation Grant winners will be announced in August.See photos from our Catalyst Launch Event!Big Al Generative Art Exhibit and multi-disciplinary conversation, April 19, 5-7 pmCatalyst Kickoff, Wednesday April 13th, 2011, 4 - 6pmGraffiti Encounter, Commons Lawn, April 13, 12-2

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