IDE Design Master Class 2024: Creative Confidence

Whether your aim is to update existing knowledge, learn new concepts and/or renew your network, at the IDE Design Master Classes, you learn the latest from those actively working at the forefront of Design. Learn from the experts as well as from other professionals!

IDE Design Master Classes are a series of intensive two-day, state-of-the-art on-site Master Classes developed specifically for professionals. In groups of 10 to 16 participants, you gain insights into recent developments in the discipline, learning about the latest methods. This has proved an extremely effective way to refine your skills, focus your ambition, and/or simply broaden your mind and be inspired!

The fourth installement in the 2024 IDE Design Master Classes series, titled 'Creative Confidence,' will be led by associate professor Milene Gonçalves. Keep reading to find out more about the session and how you can register.

About 'Creative Confidence'

Creativity is an innate and critical skill in the context to 21st century challenges. To navigate these challenges, society needs critical thinkers, who are flexible, open-minded, and risk-taking: in sum, creative individuals. However, our creativity is often curbed as we grow, which affects how we engage on creative tasks. Be it as an individual, as a team member, or as a facilitator, for ideas to emerge you first need creative confidence. 

In this IDE Master Class, you will explore your own creative confidence and that of those around you. We will break creativity myths, look into attitudes and behaviours and reflect on the mental obstacles that hold your creative back to be able to move beyond them. We will rely on principles and methods of design practice, creativity techniques, supported by cognitive and social psychology foundations. At the end of this masterclass, you will have reflected on what strengthens your creative confidence, how can you support others to be creative and create long-lasting creative habits.