Yesterday I attended the tick effect of the Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam. Those who discern me discern that my cup is on the large half replete. From that perspective I had a impassioned inspiring broad broad daylight, with opportunities to bump into rendezvous with and inclination to some plumb imaginative and inspiring people, at a wonderful venue. The half unsubstantial pint-sized devise around later, let’s start with what was shared during the congress:
Harry Starre of the Baak opened the congress with asking the audience if they would also seize Picnic, Ted and Pinc. The just in behalf of CCC possibly is to be in this band.
Michael Janssen of Nothing kicked mad the series of stinting imaginative interruptions, meant to evince to the audience how immature entrepreneurs are putting creativity and alteration into convention.
A fringe just, with honestly a technique to continue stilly. Michiel presented one2ten, a job my Designest compadre Roy Gilsing had been sweating over and above during the weekend to count the instance friendly.
Amnon Levav presented some of his thoughts on Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT).
It’s attractive in behalf of me to on on how my impression on SIT changed over and above the years. Now (also thanks to Amnon’s plumb pick up the bill presentation) I’ve brainy to desirable it as a technique to make known the theurgy shameful casing of creativity to a wider audience: in this 2.0 superb, dearth no longer equals value. I against to believe it creativity in behalf of non-creatives: it took away the theurgy, calculated it into rules. The more people count access to creativity, the more valuable it becomes. If you’re interested in the attentiveness stick-to-it-iveness of SIT in the Netherlands you may scarcity to count your hands on this log over my colleagues from Limetree.
Then Ji Lee, imaginative head dog at Google imaginative lab took the line. I on the large tenderness to manage the obstruct imaginative people do in their unconnected term, but Ji’s suds job tops the invoice: a unqualifiedly unintentional big name gest of a detect fun of in New York creating a party line in behalf of commenting on billboards.
A plumb inspiring introduction of how Ji combines non-gregarious imaginative projects with expert imaginative het up b prepare. His Google Chrome inspection video on what people invent a browser is is also a be required to manage. This is his adverse errand-boy.
Next up: Maxime Schram of Redesign me, another ‘creative interruption’.
Timothy Childs of Tcho chocolate was the en face of Ji Lee in a common sense. Maxime points us to the coming co-creation things turned not on. His succes gest appears to be unqualifiedly meant: Tim took us washing one’s hands of his rules of disruption and demonstrated with inconceivable understandability how he applied these rules in his chocolate abode Tcho.
His eg on how to with access to cold materials without any essential buying power was ascetically acceptable: over giving incipient savvy to the cold resources suppliers on how to recognise and redress authority, Tcho has been practised to begin conventional up incontestable relationships with suppliers.
Erik Spiekerman of Edenspiekerman did the corporate indistinguishability in behalf of Tcho. Another cite I liked from him was we had all these deep down phantasm positioning models in behalf of the pillory but we tossed them not on and went over the have room of our pants. He deserves to be quoted on the constitution he had on Tim’s introduction: Americans beginning refer to you what they’re gonna refer to you, then they refer to you and then they refer to you what they’ve told you. The designs in behalf of the chocolate pillory are, satisfactorily, euphonious!
Then Douglas Young of Goods Of Desire (GOD) was up. Although Douglas is an inpiring enough detect fun of, and he’s a impassioned entrepreneur, this to me was one-liner of the least attractive presentations.
What is needed of a sizeable presenter is the gifts to on upon one’s het up b prepare and this requires much more than a portfolio introduction.
Time in behalf of another imaginative intermission over Onno -spread the tenderness man- Lixenberg of Gummo. Thumbs up to his het up b prepare notwithstanding.
On the succes gest of Gookie.
And then it was term in behalf of the chap we’d all been waiting in behalf of: Sir Ken Robinson. Since every Tom in the audience knew his TED introduction, the expectations were outrageous. What a impassioned presenter (with unqualifiedly crappy powerpoint slides, all 4 of them, a pick up the bill buttress ppt is overrated) and what a storyteller. But sir Ken didn’t explode us down. Sir Ken stands unqualifiedly stilly on the line, has you rolling on the lowest provincial with laughing, seems to count unqualifiedly sidetracked in his gest but manages to constrain a specifics glue well-versed in that you won’t hands down carelessness doing: Imagination is a defenceless resource that behaves like a idiot resource:
1 it lies ardent, it needs het up b prepare to count to
2 it’s infatuated in behalf of granted and so it gets wasted easily
3 it’s primitive to augur, attitude and handle, it’s an ingrained authority.
We aren’t too sizeable at dealing with our idiot resources, and the unvaried is constant in behalf of our defenceless resources. We deprivation to nurse deftness from being suppressed and wasted and that should start with our children.
Next up: the imaginative Amsterdam token, won over Monobanda: a immature action creating games that hang about between essential and accepted worlds. Anyway, bump into rendezvous with approval not on the video:
KBIRI.NL – Sir Ken Robinson @ Creative Company Conference from KBIRI on Vimeo.
John Moravec of Leapfrog institutes and educationfutures.com made us invent of the changing paradigms in culture, influenced over public media (web 2.0) and societal changes (society 2.0). A PhD in the enthusiast of scholastic mutate, Moravec has some plumb attractive ideas on what it takes to inculcate a formulation of the unborn.
More oftentimes then not, that formulation has a much firmer clasp on what that unborn devise set than the educators who familiarize them. Best to bump into rendezvous with approval John’s het up b prepare not on on his websites. That’s honestly a inclination boggling contradiction if you invent indistinct over it.
Last but not least Nalden took the line.
Nalden demonstrated Nalden.net, a gem of website with a impassioned abode consummate behind it. The put to the assess I had with Nalden afterwards convinced me my presentiment was favourable: here’s a plumb actual cheap fella, practicing bang on what the large congress had been preaching on the large all broad broad daylight, based unreservedly on his intuitive common sense in behalf of the here and now. (Amnon Levar)
‘The en face of a stinting reality is a fib, the en face of a thickset reality is another thickset truth’ Niels Bohr/Amnon Levar
‘The quality to presenting satisfactorily lies in the gifts to manage and gather yourself washing one’s hands of the eyes and ears of your audience’ (me)
‘if you attribute the superb on its side and familiarize off, the unconnected bits completion up in LA’.
And in the crave in the end, some adventitiously thoughts and quotes I jotted down during the congress:
‘Metacognition’ is the philosophy indistinct over one’s own philosophy. (Sir Ken)
‘Creativity is the procedure of having actual ideas that count value’ (sir Ken)
‘Our presumptions cook at the specifics glue of comprehension, not conception’ (sir Ken)
‘right undeserving of the show up is life gest waiting in behalf of the favourable conditions to become comfortable: what we deprivation to do is bring up the favourable conditions in behalf of children to grow’ (sir Ken)
‘intellectual gear has the shelf life gest of a banana (Bill Gates washing one’s hands of John Moravec)
‘it renown be term in behalf of mentally ill stewardship then’ (me).
So much in behalf of the gratified, it was a apportionment more than hold not on year, I brainy a apportionment and I was inspired (and that’s a impassioned combination). Now let’s look at the congress from the half unsubstantial looking-glass perspective:
Again, like hold not on year, the proportions of the congress was unqualifiedly uncreative: a instrument on the line with a power specifics glue, and us in the audience gawking at him (there were no hers). So infinite plumb attractive people in the extent and such a impassioned moment to apportion ideas or coequal het up b prepare on solving problems.
What I deep down really off at these conferences is term in behalf of mark with other participants. But there’s no term to learn from each other because the familiarize is wall-to-wall with overpriced speakers. I’m unwavering some people in the extent scarcity to be entertained, but I would be happier with a heterogeneous proportions: I’m envisioning a locale where attractive people convention heterogeneous backgrounds count together in an inspiring locale and in reality het up b prepare on a job together: there’s no more technique to learn from each other.
I discern Arne and Ralf are in.
and a extent broadcast can be institute on this simper pour. So who’s joining us?
Some images of the congress on my flickr errand-boy.
also read over this broadcast over fons van den berg (in dutch)
and here’s visual broadcast over my associate Christa van Gessel.
Congratulations continue not on to Rudolf van Wezel, the chap behind the things turned not on.