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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon — E. M. Forster The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters even more — T. Nelson

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Thanks

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A bit about me

… my dream

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… my dream

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challenges

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challenges

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Defining CreativITy?

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I know it when I see it!

(Justice Potter Steward 1964)

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Creativity

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Creativity

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Fresh, unusual, unique, surprising, startling, astonishing, astounding, germinal, trendsetting, radical, revolutionary, influential, pioneering…

Novel

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Valuable, important, significant, essential, necessary, logical, sensible, relevant, appropriate, adequate, effective, functional, operable, useful, user-friendly

Effective

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Don Norman’s tea pots!

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Organic, ordered, arranged, organized, formed, complete, elegant, graceful, charming, attractive, refined, complex, intricate, ornate, interesting, understandable, meaningful, clear, self-explanatory, well crafted, skillful, well made, meticulous, careful

Whole

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Novel Effective Whole

Thus a creative product is

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Creativity is a goal orientated process of developing solutions that are

Novel Effective Whole

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But...

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Where do NEW* ideas come from?

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Creativity is just connecting things — Steve Jobs

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My response to Mr. Jobs...

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Arghhhhhhhhhh!!

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If only it were that easy...

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Combinatorial creativity + the cross-pollination of disciplines

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The paradox...

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Being both... in a discipline and yet

• utside of it

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The importance of disciplinary knowledge

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Disciplines teach us to see

Purposes | Knowledge | Methods | Forms

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Disciplines teach us to see

Purposes | Knowledge | Methods | Forms

Art | Mathematics | Music | Science Engineering | History | Physics Political science | Education

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Rosamund E. M. Harding (1899 - 1982) Without the rock of knowledge genius has no foundation Originality depends on new and striking combinations of ideas. It is

• bvious therefore that the more a man (sic) knows the greater scope he

has for arriving at striking combinations. And not only the more he knows about his own subject but the more he knows beyond it of other subjects. Success depends on sufficient knowledge of the special subject, and a variety of extraneous knowledge to produce new and original combinations of ideas [and]… technical skill [which] must be so far developed that it is never a hindrance to the flow of ideas.

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(in)Disciplined learning

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Ludwig Boltzman 1844-1906 James Clerk Maxwell 1831 - 1879

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The variations of the velocities are, at first, developed majestically: then from one side enter the equations of state: and from the other side, the equations of motion in a central

• field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we

hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats “Put N = 5.” The evil spirit V (relative velocity of molecules) vanishes: and, even as in music a hitherto dominating figure in the bass is suddenly silenced, that which had seemed insuperable has been

• vercome as if by a stroke of magic…One result after another

follows in quick succession till at last, as the unexpected climax, we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with the expressions for the transport coefficients. The curtain then falls! — Boltzmann on Maxwell’s work on the dynamical theory of gases

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If we care about creativity,

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We must provide

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for play across disciplines

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Because...

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Chance favors a prepared mind — Louis Pasteur

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A mind prepared for combinatorial creativity...

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Instead…

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The need for NEW* ideas

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To end...

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3 words...

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3 videos...

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Explore | Create | Share

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Have a wonderful day…

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Remember to...

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Thanks

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