Embedded Files
From Creativity to Responsible Innovation and common good
Human beings are one of the species capable of creating because they are endowed with several qualities for this: memory, projection and anticipation, manipulation and association or even translation. This creativity has allowed humanity to be what it is today, by taking risks, imagining situations, creating possible scenarios.
Creativity is what drives us from childhood and at this stage our environment invited us to imagine in order to play, learn, work. However, creativity is not a game, it is not a hobby or a leisure, it is the source of problem solving. And if we have a need to heighten imagination it is because we are facing emerging issues.
These issues are not necessarily new, but they can take on new forms. This is the case with environmental, political or human issues. These three issues are certainly the most decisive for the coming decades and for which we have to call on creativity. Whether, for example, global warming for the first, population control for the second or even so-called “transhuman” developments for the third, imagination cannot remain in observing what is unfolding, without bringing our knowledge, our techniques, our methods to imagine other possibilities than those which are proposed to us.
It is in this context that creativity must be associated with innovation and more particularly responsible innovation. In other words, how creativity should lead us to more responsible proposals on a human scale. At the level of the individual, everyone needs to cultivate their creativity, to allow them new conditions of existence, an aesthetic of existence that goes beyond our simple framework.
Learning creativity
Creativity is not only for artists, musicians, writers, painters or other creatives, and on the contrary is intended for everyone. Everyone needs creativity, whether they are an organization, a community, an individual. Creativity is the tool of the tools, what we need to imagine. Without creativity we do not progress, we do not evolve, we remain at a complacent, standardized and normative stage.
However, we need to learn or relearn creativity. To do this we need to broaden our field of thought which is neither easy nor comfortable. Indeed, ensuring that we increase our way of thinking forces us to confront what we do not know, to approach what we fear, it is the common expression "to step out of your comfort zone".
This is the stake of this course which, if it will start on the fundamentals of innovation, will focus on the notion of creativity with a wide variety of subjects and speakers. It requires a great openness, curious behavior and ready to be confronted with radically different perspectives from one another, while moving towards a common project.
Objectives
Understanding fundamentals of innovation to create- Focus on the notion of creativity with a wide variety of subjects and speakers (it requires a great openness, curious behavior and ready to be confronted with radically different perspectives from one another, while moving towards a common project.- Learning what responsibility means for a creator/inventor/innovator- How to use a method to be more creative?- Managing a creative project in a collaborative mode.
Evaluation methods
The final presentation will be 10 minutes per team followed by 10 min feedback / Q&A.
Project - collective: 65% (presentation)
Individual report 35% (report)
Report abuse