Rules of the Work is a hands-on workshop that invites participants to create under constraint. Instead of beginning with a blank page and endless possibility, each person starts with a rule—clear, specific, and sometimes restrictive. These rules act as both limitations and prompts, shaping the decisions that follow. The workshop is built around a simple question: how do rules impact the creative process? Rather than answering this theoretically, participants experience it directly. They are asked to make quickly, intuitively, and without overthinking, using their assigned rule as a guide. Some rules remove control, others force unpredictability, and some push participants to work in unfamiliar ways.

As the session unfolds, the focus shifts from outcome to process. Participants encounter moments of friction, surprise, and discovery as they navigate their constraints. What initially feels limiting often becomes productive—forcing new ideas, unexpected compositions, and alternative ways of thinking. The workshop also creates a shared environment where multiple interpretations of the same or similar rules exist side by side.

No two responses are the same. Each piece reflects not only the rule itself, but how the individual chose to follow, bend, or challenge it. Rules of the Work ultimately reframes constraint as a tool rather than a restriction. By making rules visible and intentional, the workshop encourages participants to reconsider their own creative habits—and to recognize that every act of making is already shaped by rules, whether acknowledged or not.