Category: Creativity
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Deliberate Creativity Workshop Day 1: Examining
The first week of July, I led Deliberate Creativity, a four-day workshop for La Nave Nodriza in Madrid. Here is a summary of the first day flow and activities. We kicked off the workshop with an introductory warm up: grab an object from a box and introduce yourself using the object to describe something personal…
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Deliberate Creativity Workshop: Embarking into the Imagination journey
Last week, I travelled to Madrid to teach with Mariana Salgado Deliberate Creativity, an intense 4-day workshop about imagination and individual creativity (little c). Participants were a group of 16 professionals from diverse backgrounds and industries including creative directors, entrepreneurs, art and digital product directors, urban planning consultants, engineers, and computer consultants. The workshop was…
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Imagination, Well-being, & Happiness workshop!
Have you been struggling to think creatively or imagine alternative realities or solutions for a problem? Do you find it challenging to daydream or wonder? Would you like to learn techniques and strategies to help others – students, colleagues, team members – be more imaginative? Or simply want to learn more about imagination and creativity?…
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Creativity + Science Conversations
Despite the many challenges, COVID restrictions pushed society to explore new ways of doing familiar tasks that before had been truly unthinkable. One of these tasks was teaching: rethinking the traditional in-person modality of instruction brought many headaches and a big learning curve, but also opened the door to new opportunities, like being able to…
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The vicious cycle hindering Imagination & Creativity
While creativity has become a common word in most contexts – creative technologies, creative policy making, creative science, the role that imagination plays is mostly unspoken. Similarly, despite the increasing demand for imaginative ideas that could lead to innovation, such ideas, once generated and shared for support or approval, are often blocked and never developed.…
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Creativity & Science: New Course for PhDs
Teaching creativity and helping people – of any age, background, and level of experience – reconnect with their imagination and creative potential is an extremely rewarding experience. Throughout the journey, people change their perception about external (what the concept means) and internal (their own) creativity and gain confidence in who they are and their ideas.…
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Creativity from the inside out
Creativity is often taught and greatly valued in business schools and organizational contexts. Multiple workshops, courses and programs equip future leaders with tools and strategies to innovate, run brainstorming sessions, and make the most of creativity. However, it is rare to see a truly unique, never-seen-before idea or product. The gap between theory and practice…
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Dream, Simplify, Imagine
In times where everything is getting more complex and technology driven, I have found myself increasingly adopting the opposite behaviors – simple and hands-on – in both my professional activities and my daily life tasks. My classes are much simpler than years ago in that every semester I remove content to be able to focus…
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Creativity: 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
I’m pleased to be presenting part of my creativity work at the 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas in April. In its third edition, the online festival, organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development (UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education), is a free, cultural event where more than 20 professionals, academics, and…
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Creativity + Science: Podcast episode
Images from students’ final presentations (Fall, 2022) Domain-specific creativity research in science – such as in biology, chemistry, or ecology – is rare, despite the pressing need for a comprehensive understanding of scientific creativity for enhancing science. Most prior research has focused on studying scientific genius (Big C) rather than the role of creativity in…
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Why intrinsic motivation matters
Creativity can be a lot of fun and life-changing, but it can also be extremely challenging. I believe that a creativity class can be harder than a chemistry class. While chemistry and similar subjects do require understanding the concepts, to an extent, doing assignments and putting a great amount of study hours often equals a…
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Why imagination matters
Creativity and innovation have become popular words. Just a quick search in Google shows about 663,000,000 and 3,270,000,000 results respectively. Also, many articles from domains unrelated to arts and design have described creativity as the skill to master in the XXI century. In a recent article for The New York Times, Peter Coy discusses how…
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