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In today’s fast-paced and highly interconnected world, communication is key to success in both personal and professional spheres. But traditional methods of communication can often become predictable and stale, leading to missed opportunities and mediocre outcomes.

Fortunately, there are innovative ways to break through this repetitiveness, and inject creativity and spontaneity into your communication methods. By using making and playing as a communication tool, you can unleash your imagination and collaborate with others to create truly unpredictable outcomes.

Communication combined with creativity to create a successful outcome

Communication is an important element entangled with everyday life – whether it’s business, creativity or building relationships. Successful outcomes and development all happen through communication. It’s the key factor of driving a team forward.

Communication and creativity both involve the use of language, ideas, and expression. Communication is the process of conveying information, thoughts, or ideas to others, while creativity is the ability to generate new and original ideas or concepts.

These are often closely interlinked because effective communication is essential for expressing and sharing creative ideas. By fostering an environment of open communication and encouraging creativity, teams can achieve a successful outcome that not only meets their goals but also pushes the boundaries and exceeds expectations.

Communication can also be a catalyst for creativity, as it provides a platform for sharing and exchanging ideas, feedback, and perspectives. Communication and creativity are closely intertwined, and they reinforce and complement each other, with effective communication being vital for expressing and sharing creative ideas, while creativity works by introducing new and exciting ways of expressing ideas.

These elements are a big factor when working in a team, and here at STEAMhouse, we know how to do it differently!

Experience a new way of developing your communication skills

Creating with communication will give you the ability to discover new ideas, create new connections and think about solutions to different problems.

Through our STEAM Labs, we’re hoping you can open yourself up to experience a new way of thinking and creating, leading to you achieving an outcome better than what you expected.

Whether you’re a designer, artist, musician, or simply someone looking to inject some excitement into your communication methods, this approach offers endless possibilities.

Join us on a journey of discovery, as we explore the fascinating world of communicating through making and playing to create unpredictable outcomes. Our next STEAM Lab will be taking place on 28 March, Chaotic Human Simulations – A Steam Lab by Artist Mike McShane will surprise you in unexpected ways to see through other people’s eyes!