Proposal Details

How have you embodied resourcefulness, empathy, communication, and care in your work and classrooms? In what ways are you teaching and learning creative resilience? (Photo credit: Dr. Denielle J. Emans and Izza Alyssa)

BENEFITS FOR READERS

Gathered from a variety of educators and practitioners in the creative disciplines—like YOU!—the collection will engage readers in how to utilize various creative practices, methodologies, and ways of thinking to respond to our shifting global dynamics.

This interdisciplinary collection of best practices will offer insights, observations, and lessons for coping with unpredictability and cultivating resiliency, motivating readers to use their creativity to navigate an ever-changing environment.

Creative educators and their students have unique perspectives to offer each other, other disciplines, and the general public. Proposals should have an element, embedded lesson, or idea that is transferable to people who are not studying or working in creative practice.

PREPARING YOUR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

As part of the proposal submission, we ask for a 150-word bio about what makes you uniquely qualified to offer this perspective as well as a 300-500 word overview of your proposed submission and how it contributes to resiliency and/or coping with uncertainty. Selected submissions, due by August 15, 2021, should be no more than 2,500 words.

We are primarily looking for submissions from higher-education faculty teaching in creative disciplines (art, design, music, performance, etc.) However, graduate students, recent graduates, and upper-level undergraduate students (3rd year and up) are also encouraged to submit a contribution proposal for the book.

QUESTIONS/CONTACT

Please direct any questions about this project or your submission to orbit-team@umich.edu with the subject line: Creative Resilience inquiry.

The Team

We believe in bringing diverse perspectives together to creatively address challenges that affect humankind and our shared world.


See our full research team here.

Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt

ORBIT Project Lead & Co-Author, Intercultural Collaboration by Design

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Penny W. Stamps School Of Art & Design

Kelly’s work and teaching integrate visual communication, interaction, user experience, and service design with behavior change and social engagement, drawing on her professional experience as a UX strategist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research explores intersections of virtual and physical communities, and the development of methods and tools to promote effective long-distance intercultural collaboration.

Dr. Denielle Emans, PhD

Co-Author, Intercultural Collaboration by Design

Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Qatar

Denielle is enthusiastic about the power of design to change the way people see each other and the world. Her research bridges design-based methods with intercultural learning to bring about this change at the group and individual level. While teaching at VCUarts Qatar, she has developed courses in design for social innovation, sustainability, and activism to encourage students to engage with creative action through the various modes and mediums of visual communication.