the beautiful world: CODE NAME: CREATIVITY- TEDster's come-back

14.6.10

CODE NAME: CREATIVITY- TEDster's come-back

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Here we have another two speeches,both of which we have hosted here and here, from two very intelligent and distiguished individuals. They talk to us about different aspects of creativity: Sir Ken Robinson links creativity to education and to a revolution the education system needs; Lawrence Lessig links creativity to laws, freedom and socialibilty.
Follow up some really clever typography/ graphic design works about creativity and some recommendations for watch.

This video could have the title 'Disenthrall!' Watch and you'll understand why.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country."- Lincoln

Sir Ken Robinson brings real examples that proove how we don't understand that our children live in a totally reality,with totally different 'common sense. One of those examples is a short talk with his child. "It's a single function device" says his daughter about the wrist watch. "How lame is that!" But just think how many people in the TED hall were wearing wrist watches that moment.

"Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability" claims Sir Ken Robinson and he continues, connecting society and education:

And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education. and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast foos is depleting our physical bodies. [...]We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model,which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. we have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture.We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process.You cannot predict the results of human development; all you can do is, like a farmer, to create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

There is a need for revolution not evolution, he concludes. His last words are words of a poem, that although is one about love, he uses it to tell us to be more careful when we construct the future in which our children will live. Watch and listen carefully!

During the next talk one word is dominant: free/ freedom.

I had a pretty hard time to understand what he was talking about, especially when he talked politically (I know almost nothing about politics in America, although I should *blush*- don't throw stones, pls...) but the main point is presented through the words of Julian Sanchez:

[...] here remix isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way we relate to each other. All of our normal social interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are transmuted into art. One, remix is about individuals using our shared culture as a kind of language to communicate something to an audience. Stage two, social remix, is really about using it to mediate people's relationships to each other. [...]Copyright policy isn't just about how to incentivize the production of a certain kind of artistic commodity; it's about what level of control we're going to permit to be exercised over our social realities, social realities that are now , inevitably, permeated by pop culture. I think that it's important that we keep different these two kinds of public goods in mind. If we're only focused on how to maximize the supply of one, I think we risk suppressing this different and richer and, in some ways, more important one.