Capture Arts Projects
Why do we do this work? Why is it important?
There are many misconceptions about creativity and Creative Thinking. Many adults believe that only some individuals are creative and that they themselves are not. At Capture we believe that we all have creative potential and that you can cultivate creativity and teach thinking as a skill.
Our primary aim is to devise innovative methods to encourage children and adults to think and develop their creativity; we actively encourage these principles in all of our projects.
The UK education system is the most target driven in the developed world, we have many problems making space for creativity, the national curriculum is one problem but also the lack of creative confidence in teachers is another. Adults need to be able to create an environment for curiosity and feel confident in experimenting and discovering ways to encourage children to think divergently and nurture their creativity.
The current system is very target and result driven with no room for any creative thinking or for allowing and following a creative process. There is only one answer to every question and no room to maneuver within these boundaries, this stifles and shuts down the ability for children to think for themselves, this results in a lack of creative confidence in society as a whole.
Capture are developing workshops and projects to seed the creative thinking process whilst providing a safe and open environment for this to happen.
Creativity and Creative Thinking are empowering tools for problem solving that can be applied across the curriculum, crossing age and ability and utilised in daily life. The tools give children a structure on which to build their thinking and the confidence to approach new problems.
We have developed a workshop system (The Capture System©) that is simple, powerful and effective. It is a system that enables children and adults to have the space to think creatively, it is transferable across the curriculum and can be easily taught and adapted. We have devised a range of thinking tools and methods to give to educational practitioners and parents/carers to enable them to support their children's creative development.
Making Thinking Matter© is now an ongoing programme of research and we find new discoveries with each phase of the project. It raises many questions that we hope to find the answers to and in doing this we can directly affect the future ability of children and adults to be natural creative thinkers.