An event hosted by McMaster's School of Graduate Studies and Museum of Art featured a conversation about creativity between an engineer and a biologist. The conversation was moderated by a graduate student from the Faculty of Humanities. The goal was to have an interdisciplinary dialogue for graduate students about creativity from different perspectives and how it can enhance life as a graduate student. Creativity is often seen as domain-specific but the conversation aimed to challenge that view and engage students in community building and personal growth.

1. Inside
Profess
Studio
Brought To You By McMaster
the School of Graduate Studies & Museum of Art
A
Conversation
about
CREATIVITY
with an
ENGINEER &
a BIOLOGIST
or’s
A Year Of Creativity Presents
Friday Sept 11, 2015

2. unknown
classes
professors
assignments
peers
environment
…
dissertation topic
creativity

3. What?
On stage interview by a Faculty of Humanities Graduate
Student Irena Radisevic with 2014 winners of
President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Teaching and Learning
Dr. Robert Fleisig
(W Booth School of Engineering Practice)
Dr. Kim Dej
(Department of Biology & Life Sciences)

4. Very few people are
accepted as creative – a
few painters, a few poets,
one in a million.
This is foolish! Every
human being is a born
creator!
Watch children and you
will see all children are
creative.
- Osho

5. Why?
 For Science and Engineering students to engage in
dialogue on what creativity, from a teaching and learning
perspective, can offer to life in grad school
 To contribute to the conversation that creativity is not
domain specific
 For graduate students to be exposed to different points of
view on what is creativity
 To engage graduate students in interdisciplinary community
building and personal growth through creativity

6. Inside
Profess
Studio
Brought To You By McMaster
the School of Graduate Studies & Museum of Art
A
Conversation
about
CREATIVITY
with an
ENGINEER &
a BIOLOGIST
or’s
A Year Of Creativity Presents
Friday Sept 11, 2015