Creativity and innovation

Open doors for new potentials

All of these are true: Your creativity Is like Everyone else’s creativity Some others’ creativity No others’ creativity When you engage in World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, you open doors for new potentials to emerge, along with thousands of others all over the world.   What is your creatve action for World Creativity …

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Scholarly support for celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 to 21 

Let’s loose creative energies this World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21. It’s in our nature.  See the quote below. WCIW is a social innovation – join in, be a WCIW Agent.  Make space for creativity and innovation to thrive. Post your creative action here “Human beings are inventive.  The capacity to explore …

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Creativity Course (MOOC) starts Monday

Here’s a great way to get inspired for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 to 21. Engage in Buffalo State’s free online creativity course. It’s a great way to learn/relearn about the discipline of creative studies and apply your insights to a meaningful project. Make sure to come back after the program to enter …

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Innovation Is Vital for Your Organization's Survival: 10 Must-Learn Lessons From Sir Ken Robinson

Innovation is critical to both the success and the survival of organizations, and imagination is the spark that fuels it, Sir Ken argues. Source: www.marketingprofs.com A good list of reasons to engage in World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 this year. Thank you Sir Ken.  The link leads to his 90-minute presentation …

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Can An Algorithm Actually Be Creative? (NEW BOOK)

Forget Facebook manipulating our timelines as a mass social experiment, or Google mining our personal emails for advertising keywords. When it comes to algorithms, nothing gets the blood boiling more than the subject of creativity…. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com And soon, it may be reduced to a simple algorithm.  Are we ready for this? See on Scoop.it …

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How to think, not what to think – Think Jar Collective

Jesse Richardson shares in his TEDx Brisbane talk about how to think, not what to think. Richardson shares some great insights on critical thinking. Source: thinkjarcollective.com “Creative thinking is nothing more than making connections. What I’m advocating here is less like art and more like design. Art is creative expression, whereas design solves problems.” Nice …

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9 Creative thinking on line tools – Free!

Looking for some new thinking to use during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 this year?  Here are 9 resources to play with to spark your creative thinking engines.  Remember the criteria for creativity: novel, useful, surprising ideas, decisions and/or actions. Have others to recommend?  Please list them in the comments section. …

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SXSW overview as conversation starter for new thinking during WCIW

As well as a music and film festival, SXSW is also an Interactive Festival focused on emerging technology. The interactive  focus  has earned SXSW  a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. Below is a roundup of top 10 themes from the 21st annual festival , based on on-the-ground reporting, comments …

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Enable Creativity with These Qualities for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21

Here’s a list of qualities from which to select an area to explore, experiment with, and expand… Abstraction: Abstract concepts from ideas Connection: Connect things that don’t initially appear connected Perspective: Shift perspective of a situation in terms of time, space and other people’s point of view Curiosity: Seek to change or improve things that …

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