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What is imagination? from Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer

“It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations…It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. ” Ada Lovelace (1815-1852). To use your imagination… combine two things that by nature have not yet been connected. What if, for example, …

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Happy 40th Anniversary to Why Man Creates. Creativity Principles Learned.

Leading up to the 90th Academy Awards Ceremony is a great time to honour the 1968 winner of the documentary short subject – Why Man Creates. We watched Why Man Creates every semester when I was an undergraduate and graduate student at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College; from September 1977 …

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Can one learn to be creative? New Straits Times Malaysia

By HAZLINA AZIZ January 31, 2018 @ 9:31am IN the next few years, more than three generations may be working side by side at the workplace. They are the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (also known as millennials) and Generation Z. Gen Z, who were born after 1995, are beginning to appear in the …

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Creative Problem Solving – a skill needed for the Future: Adobe Study

In preparation for World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, take a look at this infographic revealing research by Adobe. It shows the importance of Creative Problem Solving – of using new thinking to approach and solve challenges to make the world a better place and to make your place in the world better too. …

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Using Creativity in Problem Solving, what does that mean?

World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 has a purpose: to encourage people to use creativity in problem-solving to create a decent life for people on a sustainable planet. What does that mean? How does one use creativity in problem-solving? How does one know if creativity has been used? In a May 2017 post, I asked …

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WCID Celebration Spotlight: Nigeria 2017

In 2017, more than 55 WCID and WCIW celebrations spanned over 40 nations, provinces, and states. Today’s spotlight in on Lagos, Nigeria. Organizer Muyiwa Fasakin, former Chief Executive Officer at Sure Success Consultancy reports: “We had a great time in Nigeria, we started the Day with the first ever Creativity and Innovation Walk in Africa, …

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