Tag Archives: creativity
Winner takes it all?
August 17, 2010… proven.
This is an area we are currently researching. We would love to hear your opinion on how creativity and crowdsourcing could coexist in the same sentence without sacrificing output (and life) quality. Don’t worry; all interesting opinions will be rewarded with equal amounts of our gratitude and respect.
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99designs, competition, competitive crowdsourcing, contest, creativity, crowdsourcing, CrowdSpring, design, microtask, MycroBurst, reDesignMe | 4 CommentsLet Us Think Creatively
December 10, 2009Share
I read a newspaper story about creativity training recently. In it a creativity consultant boasted that by doing his course you could increase your creativity exponentially. I wondered: is this true? Can creativity really be trained?
Creative thinking is characterized by openness and vigilance. It requires the ability and the desire to question accepted truths. Creative people are suspicious of ready models and routines. …
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creativity | 1 CommentCrowded planet: desperately seeking sustainability
November 8, 2011… In Chiara Camponeschi’s own words “there are vast amounts of untapped knowledge and creativity out there that we need to unleash to make our cities more open and sustainable”. Inspiring stuff.
The West vs the rest?
Despite their grand vision, both Steffen and Camponeschi only really tackle sustainability in the developed world. All the crowdsourced projects listed in The Enabling City (and it’s a pretty long list) are based in Europe or North America. Plus I wonder how …
FixMyTransport: keep calm and carry on crowdsourcing
September 19, 2011… greener travel but why is public transport always so square ? Where’s the innovation and creativity (or the basic standards of comfort) that goes into private vehicle design? Of course, one day we’ll all plug into the matrix and cruise to work in virtual E-Types. But until then, the unsexy problem of “how to make the trains run on time” will continue to slow down humankind.
For UK citizens however, there may be a little crowdsourced light at the end of the tunnel. …
Libya, liberation and the crowd
March 17, 2011… offline.
It’s clear that oppressive regimes are scared of the web. Considering the online creativity of the young, tech-savvy crowd you can understand why. Deprived of broadband, the opposition has shown that in the age of crowdsourcing, a cell phone can be a megaphone (if you add a burning sense of injustice and a little help from Twitter, Google and CNN).
Alive and tweeting
In the early days of the Libyan revolt there were no foreign journalists on the ground (presumably …
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