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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Ken Muir Report Sketchnote
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Creative Partners
Architecture and Design Scotland
Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) is Scotland's champion for excellence in placemaking, architecture and planning...
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Research and Policy
Innovation Population - the UK's views on Innovation
Published by NESTA and based on online surveys of 6000+ UK adults and focus groups in six locations including Glasgow, the report examines views on innovation, technology and progress...
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Quotes
“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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Research and Policy
Scotland's Creative Learning Plan
September 2013 saw publication of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan which was developed with a range of partners...
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Online Teaching Tools
Rock Operator
A collaboration between geologists, teachers, and artists that explores the igneous rock and geology of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags - including an 8 minute animation, lesson activities, an online game and geological information for pupils...
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Creative Partners
Scottish Poetry Library
The Scottish Poetry Library brings people and poems together...
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Online Teaching Tools
Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Edutopia article on how to teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback...
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Creative Partners
Dance House
As one of the National Dance Agencies for Scotland, Dance House aims to inspire and celebrate the potential for dance in everyone by supporting the professional dance sector; offering an exciting and diverse programme of adult classes and developing an extensive education and outreach programme...
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Online Teaching Tools
Information is Beautiful
A blog dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams...
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Creative Partners
Company Chordelia
Formed in 2002 by artistic director Kally Lloyd-Jones, Company Chordelia defies traditional dance boundaries, working creatively by bringing music, opera, theatricality, story-telling, design and imagination to all its productions...
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Creative Partners
WE Schools
WE Schools is a unique, four-step active citizenship programme that inspires young people to identify the local and global issues that spark their passion, and empowers them with the skills and tools to make change...
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Online Teaching Tools
Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Online Teaching Tools
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Voted amongst the top 50 "coolest websites" by TIME Magazine - try your hand at painting like Jackson Pollock...
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Online Teaching Tools
Digital Makers
A programme to encourage and enable a generation of young people to create rather than simply consume technology, including the Digital Makers Fund to support innovators with bright ideas for significantly increasing the number of young people who participate in digital making...
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Creative Partners
Craft Scotland
Craft Scotland is the national development agency supporting makers and promoting craft...
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Research and Policy
Teach Kids to Daydream
Article in The Atlantic by Jessica Lahey on how mental downtime makes people more creative and less anxious...
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Quotes
“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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Quotes
“I have to reflect my background as a son of the manse; creation is a phrase that appears often in the Bible...”
—Ian Ritchie