The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Events, Home, arts-in-business on Jun 30th, 2009
I’m so happy to hear that Idriart, the Arts and Business Conference founded by Miha Pogacnik will take place once again at the Castle Borl, in Slovenia. I was a presenter and resident artist at Borl conferences from 2000-2005 and wrote about my first experience at IDRIART here. Miha is a master at bringing together [...]
Posted in Science on Jun 23rd, 2009
This reminds me of the work of Dr. Linda Long, a biochemist and musician, who develops Molecular Music from plant and human protein molecules. She uses the results for therapeutic purposes and to increase understanding of science and the human body. From Utne: Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The researchers [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Jun 19th, 2009
Tim Eavenson has written a thought-provoking blog about working for free, based on a story on NPR this morning profiling Ariel Horn, the head of a small ad agency in New York, who thinks he’s come up with a novel model for riding out the recession. Horn has opened his doors to out-of-work execs to come [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 18th, 2009
Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. His movie traces the history of our current economic debacle back to the Middle Ages, and how current crisis is actually an opportunity to reinstate commerce and communities based in creating value for one another, rather than [...]
Posted in BOOKS, Events, Home, arts-based training on Jun 16th, 2009
Reading List for my courses on Creativity, Leadership and Innovation at Royal Roads University Solution Finding: Leading with Creativity Putting Passion to Work: Potent Leadership Buy these books through Amazon. Just click on the links to get details or visit my Amazon Bookstore for my collections A Whole New Mind: by Daniel H. Pink Artscience: Creativity in [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, arts-based training on Jun 12th, 2009
John Howkins on the Creative Economy and Creative Ecologies John Howkins has written an article for my blog based on his latest book is Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture) He is the author of the best-selling book The Creative Economy “The continual search for novelty that lies at [...]
Posted in ARTS, Creativity and Innovation on Jun 12th, 2009
Here’s a charmer: Animation using Post-it notes. You’ll notice the guy takes a few naps in between a flurry of activity. I wonder to what extent productivity is improved by taking naps.
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 9th, 2009
John Howkins on Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture)
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work.
She applies arts-based learning and design-thinking to leadership development, creativity and innovation.
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
