About Me

Emma Callow is a creative practitioner, learning experience designer and STEAM specialist with over 20 years’ experience across education, arts, cultural and community settings.

Her interest in creative, hands-on learning began early and developed through studying Drama at Newcastle, delivering workshops in communities in Peru, working in special education and spending seven years at Kids Company. She went on to spend ten years at the Institute of Imagination, designing and delivering imaginative STEAM programmes, festivals, learning spaces and experiences, while working with organisations including Tate, the LEGO Foundation, Disney, the British Council and cultural and educational organisations in the UK and internationally

As a dyslexic thinker, Emma brings a highly visual, connective and non-linear approach to ideas, often seeing possibilities across disciplines, materials and technologies. Her practice now brings together creative learning design, tinkering, technology, play and making.

Recent projects include designing a Rube Goldberg machine for Britain’s Got Talent, working with 800 primary and secondary pupils at Alton Arts Festival, redesigning DT and Computing curriculum in schools, developing secondary careers days, working with museums for programme & activity design in Saudi, and delivering a Basingstoke Creative Incubator funded project where I developed Light Lab alongside her growing programme of creative workshops and making parties.

At the heart of Emma’s work is a belief in creating spaces where people can follow their curiosity, experiment, make, imagine and discover ideas through doing.

Check out the projects I have been working on!