The CREMA project will develop and inspire creativity in adult learning. Through the development of innovative methods the project will make use of cultural heritage collections in museums for creative making. Many museums are increasingly working with a variety of creative spaces or maker spaces - places where you can make things, create and innovate. We want to build on methods for creative making and combine that with knowledge, collections and skills found in museums. This will then be used to inspire adults to work together across generations, to invite marginalised groups and people with special needs, and to find audiences who do not visit cultural heritage organisations today because of how they are traditionally percieved. Through this we hope people will learn new skills (both digital and traditional crafts), social competences through cooperation, creativity, entrepreneurship and history. Particular attention will be paid to how to use museum material in a safe way which is both inspiring and does not harm fragile material. Another area in focus will be innovation and entrepreneurship. We will show and encourage people to use cultural heritage material to create new things, which can be used for new purposes in creative industries. The project will develop guidelines for how to work with creative making with the three target groups of the project; people with special needs, people who don't visit museum today with a focus on marginalised groups, and making people meet and work together across generations. Guidelines will also be produced describing how you can work with museum collections in maker activites and how to inspire entrepreneurship through the activites. The guidelines along with an analysis will be gathered in a publication describing creative making in museums, which makes the results easily available for museum staff and adult educators to take part of. By focusing on the target groups and the cooperative element of making we hope more people will feel included. Making people work together, in particular across generations, increase wellbeing. In that way we hope this project will contribute to the larger goal of a more cohesive society.
The CREMA project aims to develop and inspire creativity in adult learning. Through the development of innovative methods the project will make use of cultural heritage collections in museums for creative making. Many museums are increasingly working with a variety of creative spaces or maker spaces - places where you can make things, create and innovate. We wanted to build on methods for creative making and combine that with knowledge, collections and skills found in museums. The project has several objectives: - Promoting social cohesion by reaching out to marginalised groups, people with special needs and working with intergenerational learning. - Opening up the museum and the collections by offering new ways of working with museum material for making and innovation. - Enhancing entrepreneurship and innovation by particular focus on these aspects in the activities developed by the project. - Train staff to provide learning opportunities through creative making.
The maker movement is a growing phenomenon in our society. People want to create, with digital tools as well as traditional arts and crafts. A lot of museums have creative spaces that offers activities related to their programs and exhibitions, using cultural heritage as a starting point for creative making. Often, cultural heritage organisations which work with maker spaces do this in order to address the key competences through informal learning. This is important work, since the threshold for people to engage in informal learning is low, and you can reach diverse groups of people. At the same time, many museums have huge collections that aren't available to the public. Using them for making and creativity could be one possibility for institutions to work more actively and with their collections and making them more accessible. Also, even though creative spaces and activities are common in European museums, they are mostly intended for children and families. This project is aimed towards adult and intergenerational groups.