Andrew Brewerton's guest appearances

Andrew Brewerton

The Moby-Dick Big Read

Rob Hopkins

Design Education Talks

Charles Eisenstein

Michael Mann

Jason Roberts

Paul Hawken

Mary Norris

David King

Stephen Fry

Dave Chapman

Carolyn Brown

Nigel Larcombe-Williams

Will Eaves

James Balla

Gordon Weiss

Tom Maryniak

Nick McKinnel

OwlTail

This post is the first of two that will be exploring the story of Plymouth School of Creative Arts, a remarkable new school in the south west of England. It is a fascinating example of a school designed around the nurturing of imagination, right in the heart of one of the UK's most deprived cities. In this post, I speak to Andrew Brewerton, Principal at Plymouth College of Art, one of the key people behind the creation of the school, where he also chairs the Board of Governors. In the next post we'll hear from Dave Strudwick, the school's Head Teacher. As you'll see, Andrew Brewerton is a leading thinker in terms of how education can build, or crush, the imagination, and I started our conversation in his office at the College of Art by asking him to tell me how the school came about, and what was the gap, the hole, it was trying to fill:

"We decided to create a school": talking imagination with Andrew Brewerton.

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Deep Blue Sound, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.Starting 16 September 2012!For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Deep Blue Sound, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.Starting 16 September 2012!For more info please go to: <a href="http://www.mobydickbigread.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mobydickbigread.com</a>

Chapter 68: The Blanket - Read by Andrew Brewerton - http://mobydickbigread.com