Limits to creativity outside of the school

During our class' final presentations, I noticed how a lot of us, including myself, have emphasized the importance of creativity in the classroom--creativity and freedom in expression, in thought, and in dialogue. Some students were able to utilize the creative-promoting space of our final to share their final projects with the class, such as through the band performance, Shiva's poem, and Jamie's music list. However, even if some chose to write the traditional paper for their final, those papers were not very limiting. Instead, we were encouraged to build connections between what we've learned in class and what we hoped to learn more about; there was creativity in connection and in dialogue within our writing.

In one of my Media Studies courses, we cover the rights to creativity. In the following video, Lawrence Lessig makes an argument for the future generations and their claims over creativity and expression via the Internet http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html#

So if not in the school, then where do we find our spaces for creativity and expression, and in what ways can we utilize these spaces?

Good luck with finals and in performing for the test, but please never forget to think outside of, to test, to try, to deconstruct, and to redesign the limits and parameters that these tests and assignments create for us. 

--Steph