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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

He takes the enlightenment view of education, whereas most primary education these days (and even much higher education I would argue) leans toward authoritarian indoctrination. I have more articles on the topic in a different pearltree : http://pear.ly/8R0L by tor.nelson Feb 8

Creativity. These days, there's hardly a mission statement that doesn't herald it, or a CEO who doesn't laud it. And yet despite all of the attention that business creativity has won over the past few years, maddeningly little is known about day-to-day innovation in the workplace. Where do breakthrough ideas come from? What kind of work environment allows them to flourish? http://www.fastcompany.com/51559/6-myths-creativity

The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Metadesign (or meta-design) is an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining and creating social, economic and technical infrastructures in which new forms of collaborative design can take place. It consists of a series of practical design-related tools for achieving this. As a methodology, its aim is to nurture emergence of the previously unthinkable as possibilities or prospects through the collaboration of designers within interdisciplinarity 'metadesign' teams.

Metadesign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadesign
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/beauty_and_the_brain/ Illustration by Gluekit Why is something beautiful? David Hume argued that beauty exists not in things but “in the mind that contemplates them.”

Beauty and the Brain

Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200907/unlocking-the-mysteries-the-artistic-mind Consider the flightless fluffs of brown otherwise known as herring gull chicks.