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- Creativity in the post-Google Generation
- How Web 2.0 will Change Your Daily Life
- Poetry as Paradigm Shifter
Building a Bright Green Future
What might a sustainable future look like? What are the big challenges ahead? What kinds of breakthrough technologies and innovative designs are being deployed to help us realize 90% reductions in our impact while improving the quality of our lives? How, in short, do we use ingenuity to design a future that’s both bright and green?
My organisation is a jungle
Red Monkey Innovation Management tells you all about the politics of innovation. Like every group activity, innovation in an organisation does not escape social laws. With the metaphor that our organizations are jungles, Jef tells a memorable story about red monkeys (ideas), their breeders, and their hunters to show how they relate and create a creative company culture, or not.
Strandbeest: making New Life
Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive – on the beach and on their own. The wall between art and engineering only exists in our mind.
Creativity in the post-Google Generation
David Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined, a zone of creativity that David Edwards calls artscience. Through analysis of original stories of artscience innovation in France, Germany, and the United States, he argues for the development of a new cultural and educational environment, particularly relevant to today's need to innovate in increasingly complex ways, in which artists and scientists team up with cultural, industrial, social, and educational partners.
How Web 2.0 will Change Your Daily Life
An De Jonghe is your quintessential guide to what it takes to survive and thrive in the ever-transforming and ever-growing world wide web. An De Jonghe conducted research about the social networking markets by regions and countries all over the world, in which she compares current trends and future tendencies within interconnecting and geographically diverse markets. Readers will gain better insight into the possibilities and potential of the social networking market. The best proof maybe being An’s 4600+ LinkedIn connections.
Poetry as Paradigm Shifter
Poetry has a tendency to transcend the tangible and the intangible. It reaches deep into your core and speaks to that small voice inside you wanting to be known, often pushed aside by business, by ego, by wanting to fit in. Innovation and creation is about surrendering. Surrendering to your deeper will, surrendering to what wants to shape itself through you, surrendering to your own beauty.
