Tag Archives: Creativity

Cognitive Surplus: put it to work..

I love synergistic thinking. Clay Shirky has hit on something that I appreciate with all my quirky soul. A fascinating analysis of the side-effect of paradigm shifts on the humans trying to cope with them. This is an excerpt from the transcription of the video presentation I’ve included at the end of this posting. Worth [...]

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The Long Hallway

It is important to make space where creativity can emerge, and where individuals can get help or share ideas not when and where the preset agenda dictates, but in the moment when the need or thought occurs. “The long hallway” refers to a comment made by a participant in a study of work in documentary [...]

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School-to-Work Transition for Artists

Summary of Notes for Presentation Montreal Dec 8 2001
Q: What kind of ‘transition from school to work’ initiatives would be the most efficient to implement in a context where 50 percent of the 809,000 cultural workers are fully or partially self-employed? How can we better prepare graduates for the realities of the cultural sector workplace?
A: [...]

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