www.ted.com At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).
Something I should say is that breaking away from peer opinion is incredibly difficult, It is someting which often marks the better students out from others. It actually requires a degree of bravery and illicits hostile rivalries, it can often perceived as arrogance. It may in fact often explain why male students do better in the Art world also. The creative process is an act of will. It is stepping out of the stuff everyone knows and changing the world with something original or completely new
I have been an Art Lecturer teaching at college level. When I went to Art school I was taught that, the creative process is validated by depth of research (drawings) and technical accomplishment (painting). Original ideas are sometimes the best, however falsifying this with other compositions means that one gets to compare, choose and develop. Play is compositional studies(doodles) Art students are asked to compare themselves to the great masters, not their peers = they learn from the best.
I kind of tuned out the last part as I got set up for sharing it, but I was particularly drawn to the parts where he compares play between children and adults. I also like the part in the beginning where he described some of the characteristics of playful/creative environments.
Yet another factor is that being creative can alter social status amongst peers, and also it can place responsibilities onto the creator. One has a responsibility for what one creates. For many it is just fear. life I guess can seem simpler and easier if one slips into a quiet void with unicorns and religion. We need to make our world less about boring work, power, fear or bigotry, before we can truly liberate human minds.
Hmm...As an artist, I do get allot of negative looks from people just for being "free" with myself and having the confidence to be wrong. Of course, it sometimes makes me feel insecure but it doesn't stop my creativity. I just accept that in life, both bad and good feelings come. It's funny because, with me, my creativity "stops" when I try to fight off the insecurity. I learned to accept all of myself. That's how creativity happens for me and most other artists I know...
Unlocking the creativity in all of us is vitally important. In orbiting the giant hairball the author refers to grade 1. children eager to tell everyone they are an artist. By the time they get to grade 3. only 10 out of 30 will tentatively, self consciously raise their hand. Rediscover that grade 1 child in you today. Great work Tim.
@nilbud: Your short little crude replies speak volumes of your present nature. May you find peace in your lifetime through thoughtful introspection. I have always found the Irish to be some of the most wonderful people to be found, but there is always at least one killjoy on every island.
What you said about knowledge better understands consciousness. So many say we do not have free will but consciousness shows that our freedom evolves and in a sense we do but only in our choices. I like the arts to. Astrobiology and biophysics are very interesting. Philosophy and Psychology also are interesting to with A.I. I to have a passion for almost everything except war and crime:)
@valcaputi i'd have to say to this that the design that he was talking about was far from strictly art related, allot of it was engineering. but yes, this approach should be used in more businesses than it is.
People in their picture were lucky for having a chance to play! We are all playing with jobs and life. Designer has to concern seriously about play well with conscious. I had rather say " design is serious play".
i liked that one a lot. I have to stop and listen to it again sometime. Designers are the shit, they've got such a cool approach to life. We should all be designers, if only in our own way - where we aren't getting paid for it.
lol me too. The appetite for knowledge is unsatiable once you get going. Like they say: once you realize that enlightenment is your potential, you wont settle for anything less. Im down with that.
Ya it sounds quite crazy but TED talks are about new ideas so its a start. I actually agree with that 100% to because if we did design our own lives and weren't such products of our own environment the world would work a lot better
@marsCubed I know what you mean. I'm an art major in university. I never understood the comparing thing though. My teacher would show me Gogh, and I would appreciate it and understand his techniques but they just aren't my techniques. I'm not Gogh, I'm myself. I wish they took out the comparing thing. If students wanted to compare themselves to great masters, they can do it on their own. For me, it's just tedious and doesn't do anything.
Hard to define since the studies I am drawn to vary so much. Mostly consciousness, music & art, alternative history, astrobiology, and other cool things like that. Basically, Im kind of a music, art & writing guy that got seduced into spirituality lol But its been cool to see how knowledge of consciousness betters your understanding and performance of the arts. (and also how living creatively strengthens your faith in the power of consciousness). Safe to say I havent chosen a major lol
@SexyRaww IMO people should look at & try to understand other Artists as much as they can. Particularly ones that relate to their own work. What I meant to say was the direction ones take is one's own, Be aware that excellence does often involve novelty, mood, ideas, stuff that captures people's imagination.. it's is a visual language. and Artists saying things with it. It can take some courage. With Art especially, Everybody is a critic. One needs to be able to deal with that.
I'm guessing your one word response here is an explanation of why you came to make your first simple minded comment. You just forgot to put the 'I am' in front of it, but we understand the difficulties for some to formulate complete sentences.
You missed the whole point. Playful environments make creativity more free-flowing. It's not about making work 'easier', it's about getting your employees in a design firm to feel more free to be creative. Your understanding of this concept is the 'load of bollocks'.
@GMPresents I find these conferences questionable since their intent was cloaked by a megalomaniac who really wanted to promote his agenda at a private college that caters towards trust fund babies that pay over 100k in tuition. It's a self indulgent Art School that has a philosophy that prostrates itself towards its cooperate masters. I don't see how you can be truly be creative if you're really trying to appease the business community?
thats true. you could combine design and philosophy together all at once and say we design our own lives. at least our half of it, the world designs the other half u know? lol
@marsCubed Ya, exactly. I think society can be just plain silly. They think they're "growing up" but they're just failing to see the entire picture. We all have a life that will end one day, every single person is just going to be another pile of bones in the ground. In that sense, we are united in this World. We need to let go of our egotistical perception of social status because it is just based on insecurity and not progress. What is so bad being creative? Oooh so criminal. lol.
@iTellyoueveryting Nah, I would just acknowledge that I didn't know anything about the instrument. And I'd tell the writer, "I don't know shit about this instrument, so here goes, you asked for it" lol.
@BIOLOGICALSCUM What does growing up even mean? Are you sure you know? Or you just blindly limited by your life that's going to end one day anyway? O.o
Unlocking the creativity in all of us is vitally important. In orbiting the giant hairball the author refers to grade 1. children eager to tell everyone they are an artist. By the time they get to grade 3. only 10 out of 30 will tentatively, self consciously raise their hand. Rediscover that grade 1 child in you today. Great work Tim.
