Design Thinking for Educators. Your Future Depends on Your Creative Mind. Your future, and your children's future, depends on your being able to add value where computer software cannot. This means that you and your children need to be creative thinkers and, even more importantly, recognise the potential value of creative ideas. The biggest threat to your job and your working future is not outsourcing to China or India.
It is not reckless bankers. It is not even idiot politicians (though they come close!) Rather, the biggest threat is innovative new technologies that can do ever more of the tasks that people like you do – but at significantly less cost. A Brief History of Technological Advancement For the past 200 years, technology has been replacing jobs. Of course, technology also improved the efficiency of factories.
As long as productivity generally grows along with technological development, this works just fine. To put it in a nutshell, technology has been replacing jobs relentlessly for two centuries. Let us face facts: this is not going to happen. Tilda Swinton's The Maybe - Who, What, Why. Who? Tilda Swinton – as living art. When visiting MoMa, one might chance upon her asleep in a glass vitrine. In the past few weeks Swinton has slept in the museum’s main lobby, Rodin's monumental Balzác watching over her, in the half-light of Douglas Gordon's video installation "Play Dead" and on the Bauhaus staircase next to a Calder mobile.
She lies bare-faced, in old, indistinct clothes and sneakers with clumps of mud stuck to the soles. What? A gentle refusal of explanation and the element of surprise is integral to the piece. Whilst Swinton has never discussed her experience of being inside the vitrine, she has spoken about the conception of the piece a number of times. "The performance can be read as a 'memento mori' – a performative monument to fragility, to our mortality and to collective mourning" Later, an email from Swinton to the author of the book provides some further insight. Why? Text by Caroline Lever. Departure Home. The Production Kitchen. Teamworks.is. Welcome to A Good Week | A Good Week: 18-24 June 2012. The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. Many Eyes. Create diagrams online Real time collaboration - Tour. C2-MTL Commerce + Creativity.