Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design
Science rarely looks to non-scientists for ideas and solutions. But on this occasion, the nuns have helped scientists to understand more about the achoques and how to breed them. The nuns gained lots of their understanding from the indigenous people who know where to find the salamanders.
Instead of directing confronting her of him with -the standard way of to correct other people’s behaviour- you might design an irresistable nudge.
In 1968, Dick Fosberry won a gold medal in high jumping at the Summer Olympics. Instead of diving with his belly over the bar and landing on his feet, he did it reverse, jumped over the bar with his back and landed on his back. Nearly two thousand years since the Olympics in Athens, mankind …
Famine, plague and war! These three problems used to be the problems that preoccupied people throughout history. These problems have not been solved and millions of people are dying from poverty, disease and war. But where are we heading? What social challenges do we need to deal with in the future. In most countries around …
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Does art matter in the world of innovations? “There is a prevailing attitude,” says Amy Herman, that art doesn’t matter in the real world.” But art can help to sharpen our observation skills. And looking at Georgia O’Keeffe’s giant flowers seen through a magnifying lens may help you come up with new ideas. . . …
Nowadays there are lots of startup challenges. Mostly they define a very broad area in where ideas are sought. It is a rather passive way to innovate. It is assumed that the idea or the startup is already out there, and it only needs some nurturing in the development, mainly on the business side. The …
Imagine that a time machine could transport you to a medieval village. What if you asked a villager “What year is this?” What would the reply be? In the brilliant book Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind, the author Yuval Noah Harari says that the question would have bewildered the person. The cycles of natural …
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What can innovators learn from art? Observation skills, questioning, and experimentation are vital parts of innovation. Observing everyday activities can lead to new insights where things can be improved on. It can also lead to break-through ideas. The innovation psychologist Leon Segal said: “Innovation begins with an eye.” Innovators carefully watch the world around them …
The best way to make a difference in the world is to be original But how do people come up with great ideas – great original ideas? Flickr: Shaun MacEntee Creativity Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, studies original thinkers – thinkers who stand out. In the talk below he talks about some unexpected habits of …
Thomas Mass suggests in the book What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence that machines needs to grow up. So far we have designed machines that are like juveniles. Machines are mundane and they are carrying our mundane tasks. We need machines that have more souls, …
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Photo: Pixabay The future exists only in our imagination. A problem is that when we visualize the future it is easy to imagine that our Earth has not changed. We can visualize new technologies and innovations, and ways to interact and communicate with other people. A flying car or a mobile phone that tells us …
What can we learn by watching Quartets playing classical music? Quartet players face many tough challenges in today’s world. Is it possible to attract new audience while at the same time being interesting for the existing audience? Interestingly a mature company may face the same questions as quartet players. Can a string quartet consisting of …
Imagine that you would design an art museum, how would you hang the paintings? And what would you write on the notes that are placed beside the artworks? The concept “Thinkbility” refers to a biological approach to thinking, where it is assumed that thinking takes place in an environment and the characteristics of the environment …
Reversing ideas can be a mind-blowing experience. A simple ordinary everyday occurrence can be turned into a great innovative idea by simple reversing the idea. This idea was inspired by a great innovative idea in itself, namely virtual trees created by the Belgian artist Naziha Mestaoui, The project One Beat, One Tree, changes our perception …
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The Internet! Maybe the most outstanding communication innovation in the history of mankind. A little tap on the keyboard and we have access to all sorts of knowledge, information, ideas, pictures. . . Indispensable business tool that offers faster communication, social networking, and eCommerce. In this blog post the focus is on the negative aspects …
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The vision that people could ingest food by smelling or whiffing it lead David Edwards to design the chocolate inhaler. The idea behind Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler, takes into account not only our desire for chocolate but also the fact that over the last centuries we have changed our eating habits – we consume smaller quantities but …
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Learning to innovate: an abstract art? Many companies and organisations may not have noticed that innovation means something else than more research, more technology, more money, or taking more risks. All these factors comes after the conception of an idea for innovation. Inventing ideas is thinking. And a truly innovative idea does not exist – it is only …
Actions Speak Louder than Words The annual Earth Day is marked by a mix of ideas ranging from inspired initiatives to shameless ideas where the purpose it to get us to buy even more. “Together, we can help to make Every Day Earth Day!” is a great idea but when it is put next to …
Greta Thunberg has with the help of over a hundred experts created a book filled with ideas and research about the changes in our climate. The Climate Book looks at the changes from a wide range of perspectives and it is a valuable resource if you are looking for a summary of the problems. The …
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We take the summary of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster `The Breakthroughs We Need from Wikipedia as an introductory text. We will conclude with some reflections on his line of thinking.
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