One of the main tenants of creativity and leading a creative life is experiencing the interdependence of all things everywhere. Nothing could be more telling of this truth than the myth of “pure” races. The curiously creative human organism first arose in Africa, some 150,000 years ago, then migrated north, south, east, and westwards, developing […]
Understanding Creativity Across Art, Science, and Religion Part I
It is common for people to pigeonhole creativity into a specific type of activity such as art, invention, or innovation. It is also common for people to say that there are creative “types” out there, those that seem to be inherently more creative than others. But from my own perspective, all of human activities share […]
New Report Confirms Age-Old Wisdom: Walking About In Nature Sparks Creativity
Like many of you, as the owner of both a smartphone and a laptop computer, so long as my devices are on, I tend to be inundated with information, much of which is totally useless. To have creativity be an integral part of your life, it is essential that you learn to take breaks from […]
Timelapse Cinematography Unveils the Dynamic Creativity Inherent to the Universe
Yosemite Range of Light from Shawn Reeder on Vimeo. Here is a clip from cinematographer, Shawn Reeder, featuring one of my all time favorite places in the world, Yosemite Valley, with other shots from the Eastern Sierras, Mono Lake, and Joshua Tree. One of the most important aspects of understanding creativity is seeing the dynamic, ongoing changes happening all […]
Co-Designing and Creativity: Developers and Users Team Up to Create Better Products
When it comes to creativity and innovation, inferior products are those that fail to meet the aesthetic and functional needs of the user. On the other hand, superior products have a deep understanding of the user’s need built right into the product. In this article Catalina Naranjo-Bock explores how research teams are interacting and inviting their […]
Do You Want to Improve Your Business? Allow Daydreaming to Spark Your Creativity
Business and daydreaming don’t seem like the most congruent pair out there; business at its heart is about profitable productivity whereas daydreaming for most amounts to little more than wasting time. But in the long run, allowing the mind to wander boosts creativity and creative insight, lending itself to the long term success of a […]
Creativity and Nonduality: The Self and the Built Environment
Here is another abstract that my co-host of the Conscious Design Build talks, Hristiyan Atanasov, and I submitted to the 2012 Science and Nonduality Conference: It has been estimated that the construction and operation of buildings consumes over a third of the world’s energy consumption and 40% of all the mined resources. Furthermore, the built […]
When is the optimal time for creativity?
For me, creativity and the creative process is not limited to those times when we are in our so-called right brains or coming up with new and innovative ideas. It also includes those times when we draw upon the skills that we’ve developed over time to bring our creative insights into some sort of fruition. […]
What is the relationship between creativity and problem solving?
Recently, I found myself participating in an interesting exchange on LinkedIn, on the Architecture for Humanity thread. I am sharing it with you today because I believe it unveils some important aspects of our ability to use creativity as a means for positive change or to use creativity for a means of subtly adding to […]
The Remarkably Creative Mind of Malcolm Gladwell
One of the most creative and innovative people of late to triumph on the world stage is Malcolm Gladwell, author of three wonderfully entertaining and educational books: Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers. I have learned a lot about creativity from reading Gladwell’s books. Not only that, his way of writing, his way of […]