In this episode, Roger Robinson is our guest and talks about teaching, learning and creativity from his experience as a writer (A Portable Paradise and Home Is Not A Place) and musician. For him, teaching is a performative act: good teachers read the space like performers, reacting to energy, presence and uncertainty in the group. His neurodiverse perception has taught him to convey content in a multisensory, systematic and context-based way. For him, it is not the end product that is decisive, but the process - the fun, the realisation and independent further thinking.

Roger is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020, shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2020, Cholmondeley Award 2024 and shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His latest collection ‘A Portable Paradise’ was a New Statesman book of the year. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and he has toured extensively with the British Council.

@burg_halle

This episode is hosted by Christian Zöllner, Professor of Industrial Design at the BURG Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.

→ Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

→ Hurra Hurra Festival

→ Roger Robinson

→ Book: A Portable Paradise

→ Book: Home Is Not a Place

→ Tricia Hersey

→ Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno

→ Dieter Rams

→ Grenfell Tower

→ Roger Robinson + Disrupt Dub Live Session London

→ Book: On Poetry

→ Book: On Creativity

→ Johny Pitts

→ George Floyd

→ Book: Afropean

→ Garamond

→ Bodoni

→ Book: Deep Work

→ Kevin Martin aka The Bug

→ King Midas Sound

→ FACTMix King Midas Sound on Mixcloud

→ Dub Poetry: Reggae’s Lost Art

→ Fader Mix King Midas Sound on Soundcloud