Creating better humans

'Creating better humans': autoethnographic & creative approaches in co-designing new arts pedagogy at the National Gallery of Australia In Art Education as a Radical Act (2024), artist and educator Luis Camnitzer writes, "Beyond being concerned with how many people enter the premises… museums should be concerned with the transformation of those who exit. This change of emphasis is what could help define a museum's true educational mission (p.43)." Thinking with and alongside this text, in this paper we detail our experience co-designing a new creative learning pedagogy with the NGA Learning Department. Focussing on a series of workshops we ran for Gallery educators, we explore how autoethnographic and arts-based methods helped us facilitate, and participate, in the construction of a future-oriented pedagogy. At the outset of the research project, the Gallery stated that the aim of their education programs was to 'create better humans'. Through workshopping and theorising the future of creative learning pedagogy, we explore the potentials of the "radical identity of the practice of art education."