1. The Basement: Introducing The Lab.- 2. The Kitchen: Practical Exercises (Prompts).- 3. Room With The View - The Bedroom: Modelling Of Responses.- 4. The Library: Theories.- 5. The Living Room: Encounter.- 6. The Rooftop: The Pedagogy Of Love And Freedom.- 7. The Garden: Plotting For Possible Futures.

“Running counter to the current culture of instrumentalism and individualism in higher education, this a passionate, theoretically grounded text championing the potential of reciprocal care in the creative act. Chemi and Firing urge us to look to others to live, love, learn as we lean into freedom through collaborative, reflexive, generative writing.” - Allan Owens, Professor Emeritus RECAP University of Chester, UK, National Teaching Fellow, Visiting Professor, LUT University Finland. “In a fast-changing world with many crises occurring, this book gives me hope! Chemi and Firing have created a brilliant book: critical, eye-opening, intriguing and very well written.”  - Ottar Ness, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology “This gem of a book opens up new grounds and possibilities for transforming the process and practice of writing.  Using multi-sensory arts-based tools, along with theatrical and inspiring performative metaphors, this is a treasure trove that playfully unlocks the writer in all of us. Whether it is the synergies of scholarly and educational thinking, or the choreographic release of the hopeful possibility that another possible is possible after all, we are invited into a writerly journey that unleashes the writer in all of us.” - Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education, University of Cambridge, UK This book is an exploration of a collective writing laboratory designed to stimulate creativity and critical reflection for education professionals. The authors uncover how a writing lab can help educators develop their teaching practices and identities by means of critical-creative, collaborative, relational and arts-based methodologies. A theoretical insight into pedagogies of love and freedom illustrating how laboratory practices in education can become acts of daily care, the book will appeal to students and scholars of education, arts-based methods and creativity. Tatiana Chemi is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark. Kristian Firing is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

“Established originally as a backstage for two scholars to develop their teaching practices the Critical-Creative Writing Laboratory is opened-up for all in this book. Running counter to the current culture of instrumentalism and individualism in higher education, this a passionate, theoretically grounded text championing the potential of reciprocal care in the creative act. Chemi and Firing urge us to look to other to live, love, learn as we lean into freedom through collaborative, reflexive, generative writing.” (Allan Owens, Professor Emeritus RECAP University of Chester, UK National Teaching Fellow, Visiting Professor LUT University Finland) “In a fast changing world with many crisis occurring, this book gives me hope! The book gives insights, reflections, and makes me stop and notice the world, myself and the relationships around me. The book invites me in to a living laboratory full of enthusiasm and critical thinkning – and I will say it is a groundbreaking book promoting a pedagogy of love and freedom.  Chemi and Firing has created a brilliant book: critical, eye-opening, intriguing and very well written.” (Professor Ottar Ness, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) “This gem of a book opens up new grounds and possibilities for transforming the process and practice of writing. Tatiana Chemi and Kristian Firing uniquely evidence practices of writing that not only disrupt established traditions but create new and alternative possibilities.  Using multi sensory arts-based tools, along with theatrical and inspiring performative metaphors, this is a treasure trove that playfully unlocks the writer in all of us. Whether it is the synergies of scholarly and educational thinking, or the choreographic release of of  the hopeful possibility that another possible is possible after all, we are invited into a writerly journey that unleashes the writer in all of us.” (Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations, University of Cambridge)

Establishes relationality and reciprocal care as fundamental to creativity Proposes a new way to develop teaching and learning through writing Generates new thoughts and implications about writing as an artistic form