Thanks to recent posts by Desdownunder and Cole Parker, I have spent the past few days listening to several stimulating lectures. Some were held at the Chautauqua Conference Center in western New York this past summer while others were from the Aspen Institute in Colorado, All are worthy of investigation I believe.
Des already spoke eloquently on Karen Armstrong?s Charter for Compassion.
To that I add George Kembel, co-founder and executive director of the d.school, whose talk explores ways to tap the latent human capacity for creativity and innovation: Awakening Creativity
Kembel?s new approach to problem solving is really a paradigm shift as it looks for what is not obvious to find other solutions to problems.
Of parallel interest is a lecture at the Aspen Institute given by Tod Machover, composer, inventor, and professor of music and media at MIT, discusses the many ways in which technology is transforming music: Transforming Music
Machover?s talk celebrates out-of-the-box creativity involving music in innovative ways.