Rate My Professor Ron Corso

Ronald Corso serves as a Lecturer in the School of Art and Design, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. With over thirty years of involvement in design education, he was previously a Lecturer in Communication Design and Product Innovation at the University of South Australia. His professional career includes extensive research into the teaching of creativity, convening conferences, and publishing and presenting at numerous national and international conferences and industry workshops. Corso has driven significant curriculum reforms to integrate creative capacity into teaching and learning practices, thereby enhancing student graduate attributes. As an international consultant, he has worked on projects advancing design, design education, drawing, and creativity across various disciplines.

Corso's primary research interests lie in creativity and creativity education. He has received a Teaching and Learning Citation for Teaching Excellence and Research, a University Teaching and Learning Grant, and contributed to a successful Office for Learning and Teaching grant that developed the online framework 'Ingenium' for teaching creativity. His scholarly output includes peer-reviewed journal articles such as Majchrowska and Corso (2022) 'I Can't Draw: Reflections on drawing and the role of uncertainty and loss as deliberate methodologies to foster creative thinking skills' published in Tracey: Drawing and Visualisation Research; Corso (2020) 'Building an innovative and entrepreneurial dimension in an institution of higher education' in Higher Education for the Future; and Corso and Gluth (2017) 'Re establishing new creativity and innovation as the most distinctive characteristic of human wellbeing through approaches to creative idea generation in diverse disciplines' in the International Journal of Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Additional contributions encompass book chapters, including Corso and Robinson (2023) 'Promoting Positive Ageing Lifestyles and Wellbeing Through the Use of Social Media to Facilitate and Enhance Creative Decision-Making'; conference papers such as Corso and Bateup (2017) 'The creative thinking dimension in architecture and urban design education programs'; and the original creative work 'Sottosopra' (2021), a laser-cut perspex chandelier. Currently, he teaches GRAP 1017 Design Foundation Studio and GRAP 2019 Creative Thinking Methods.