Sunday, March 9, 2008

Welcome Creativity Champions

Greetings fellow Creativity Champions! This blog is for anyone who nourishes, accelerates, celebrates, protects or advocates for creativity. You might be an artist, an innovator, a scientist, a designer, a change agent, a community organizer, a policy wonk or someone who values creativity in their personal lives.

I'm starting this with over 200 people who joined the Creativity Champions Group from LinkedIn, but the forum is open to all who self-identify themselves as Creativity Champions. Let's see how this forum evolves. Let's start by asking people what we want to know first. Should we just introduce ourselves. Is there a few questions we'd like everyone to address?
Do we want to use the forum for problem solving?

Jump in, the water's fine!

11 comments:

Gregg Fraley said...

Best of luck in moderating this effort Tom, it's a great idea. Wouldn't it be nice if creativity and innovation were truly on the national agenda.

Unknown said...

I think it would be great to use this space as a clearinghouse for new and unusual creative ideas. I don't happen to have any at the moment but give me a sec and I'll come up with something

KIRKWORX said...

Let me put another question out there in Creativityland: What role do we play in terms of visual creativity when it comes to the "Green Initiatives"?

Unknown said...

I believe it is our obligation to use any color other than green.

Tutor Mentor Connections said...

I support this process of creativity and innovation with a library of knowledge about poverty, poorly peforming schools, and tutor/mentor programs where kids and volunteers are meeting.

I hope this group can build some traction, around issues that we all share in common.

Anonymous said...

I think stories of success & those creative ideas that people use in various industries can be immensely helpful and will in fact, create multiple applications in various industries and businesses.

Ophelia Chong said...

What talking about the Outcasts of Creativity? The ones that can say "I told you so". For instance: office spaces have adopted the "artist loft" style of open spaces; becoming synonymous with the combination of working and lived time and with innovation and diversity of ideas.

What is outside now that will be welcomed "in"?

martin said...

good luck Tom

Martin

Cynthia DuVal said...

Hello all,

I am a cultural historical psychologist, ethnographer, artist, design researcher, entrepreneur.

I think that most people who know me would call me a creativity champion but I've never felt that I've done enough. I've been working to change that and am pleased to find this group forming.

I am just beginning a series of interviews with people who are both engineers and artists. I first started this work as an ethnography intern at Xerox Parc in 1994 and am picking it up again after some years working undercover of non-disclosure agreements for advanced technology labs and emerging product groups.

If you are someone or know someone who is working across engineering and art disciplines to achieve creative outcomes and would like to participate in the educational etnography project I am leading, please let me know.

Thanks!
Cynthia DuVal

Unknown said...

Hi Cynthia DuVal and Tom,

I am an artist and a engineer. I would like to participate in your program.

I am a visual artist, and founder of the Thinkism Art Movement, but my backgound is in industrial engineering.

I am currently building the E=MC2 Creative Friends Network, a green social network for creative people who want to change the world for the better.

David Kam

Jane Robinson said...

Hello everyone! Thanks Tom for bringing us together. I am the Director of the Armory Arts Village, in Jackson, MI. - a creative campus where creative people live and work. An income based live/work lofts with free studios, ceramic studio, sculpture studio, glass, no commission gallery, business classes and mentoring. We still a few vacancies and NEED artists to fill them - please help to pass the word. I am working on developing a technology lab where arts and technology meet. If anyone can help - please do.

Yours in Creativity,
Jane