Creative Formats Across Media and Disciplines is a new book designed to guide instructors and students to more effectively examine how format shapes meaning.
It is rooted in art and design practices and, while engaging fields from STEM to the humanities, the book bridges disciplines that embrace format diversity and those where form and content remain separate. It employs concrete examples – video narratives, choreographed dance and quilted data visualisations – to demonstrate new possibilities for communication.
Featuring teaching tools, expert lesson plans, curated resources and student perspectives, Creative Formats supports creative coursework design. It helps students understand when and why to choose specific formats and how to work within their constraints. Students learn when and why to select formats and how to work within each form's unique affordances and constraints. Where format experimentation often happens in silos, this book fosters shared language and transparent expectations that build format literacy throughout academia.
Set Margins', 324pp, 15cm x 21cm, illustrated paperback, 2026
