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George Kembel: Awakening Creativity

Chautauqua Institution
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Embrace
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Posted: 08.21.09, 02:05 PM
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danthemango
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Posted: 08.21.09, 08:56 PM
my grandfather was born prematurely in a small farm in a tiny German village. His father put him into the bread warmer above the stove and used that as an incubator, so yeah, the concept of incubators is just a warm place.
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Rdallas1
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Posted: 08.25.09, 01:05 PM
Thank you embrace for posting the link. Really great organization and I loved the photos posted. I'll try and spread the word.
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MTGRAY
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Posted: 08.27.09, 03:16 PM
Stanford always is thinking how to make money off any game in the political calling.
this University is so far right that it is wrong for no returns on humanity.
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Dora Simon
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Posted: 08.28.09, 07:51 PM
Creativity is available to all of us and only a small percentage are born with a drive, ambition and innate ability beyond the average/creative person to be an 'individual voice'/visionary. Having taught and knowing stories, I know that people have more in them than what they realize creatively. The problem is focus and discipline (which is huge). Perhaps that is why praises a team more than individual voice.

I'm happy to hear he is interested in approaching it an earlier stage as well (kids/middleschool/ testing/ high school).

Real empathy can be taught? This is sympathy & and I suppose a bit debatable or perhaps it's a matter of semantics. I understand and know it is critical to point out the idea of empathy(and find it critical); but I find it questionable if it is real or 'applied' thought under a corporate umbrella the way it is spoken here.

I do not like the praising of innovation through having to work on a team. Individual voices are equally as relevant and is something that should be addressed. As a freelancer, I know that when my work is assessed by 'a team' it gets 'watered' down to create an image that has mass appeal and loses the 'voice'. This all of course depends on the client and project.

Policy notion is interesting.

I'm not sure what to think about this overall; for some reason- there is something 'mechanical' about this. Some of this stuff is so obvious perhaps; and when it is broken down, it gets strange... not sure...
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Piko
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Posted: 08.31.09, 08:12 AM
Relax Dora. It is Semantics yes though i believe empathy fits its placement. You cannot empathise with something that you do not understand, and the use is to explain the process of understanding the problem and being sensitive to it to a level that is equated to being empathetic.

Anyhow, yer all thumbs up and stuff, i'm all for boosting creativity etc, though you do have a valid point dora, as well as you danthemango. I have no doubt design students at any university would come up with equal ideas, finding a simple solution is not so hard as an individual as danthemango states, and can become convoluted within a group as Dora states. Furthermore George Kembel himself states "they just needed a better battery and a white LED, and they didn't know that..." which says to me, there was nothing stopping these people (or the general person) from solving these issues, but its hard if you don't understand the relevant technology.

Though I guess that is his point, anyone can be creative, you just need to understand the situation and the technology relevant (technology in the broad use of the term where even a hammer and a nail is technology). In which case i can state its great he's giving people a process here they can follow to achieve their aims, however, from my own experiences, each person will excel in creativity with different approaches. Though thumbs up for getting people thinking.
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