Ian Warwick: ‘Learning with Leonardo: Invention, Thinking Aside and Adjacent Possibilities’

Ian Warwick is Founder and CEO of London Gifted and Talented (LG&T). Ian founded LG&T as part of the groundbreaking London Challenge, which has transformed education across London since 2003. LG&T have directly worked with over 4,000 schools and 11,000 teachers internationally, and more than 150,000 educators worldwide have used LG&T’s award-winning, high-challenge e-learning materials.

Warwick is the author of several books, including Educating the More Able Student (Sage, 2016), World Class (Routledge, 2016), Redefining More Able Education (Routledge, 2018) and Redefining English for the More Able (Routledge, 2018). He recently completed a book on learning, Learning with Leonardo: Unfinished Perfection (John Catt, 2019), which focuses on Leonardo da Vinci and explores strategies for improving creativity and innovation.

In this talk, Warwick discusses what we can learn about learning, creativity and innovation from da Vinci. The accompanying presentation is available here.

On our podcast there is also an interview with Warwick.