Pourquoi et comment enseigner l'écriture créative aux ingénieurs ?

Brad Tabas (1, 2)

1 FoAP - Formation et apprentissages professionnels
2 ENSTA Bretagne_SHS - Département Sciences Humaines et Sociales ENSTA Bretagne

How and why should we teach creative writing workshops to engineers? The basic claim, defended here with both reference to scientific studies on creativity and anecdotal evidence drawn from teaching experience, is that creative writing workshops can be taught in such a way as to help future innovators to both better understand the creative process and to think deeply about the ethical and social impacts involved in acts of creation. The somewhat paradoxical claim animating this article is the idea that the people who may really need courses in creative writing are not writers but engineers, those whose creations may bring us towards science fiction futures, and who, for this very reason, need to be capable of creating fictions as a guide for imagining the ethical consequences of their innovations.

Mots clés: creative writing; engineering education; ethics and pedagogy; philosophy of education

Domaines: Education; Littératures

Brad Tabas. Pourquoi et comment enseigner l'écriture créative aux ingénieurs ?. Anne Pauzet; Dominique Ulma; Anne Prouteau. Écritures créatives : Représentations contemporaines et enjeux professionnels, Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp.301-318, 2023, 978-2753586147. ⟨hal-03791456⟩