The first conference session of the day, "Imagination Challenge: Points of Departure for Design in the Interactive Conference", was just brilliant. The subhead was "How do we address the bigger challenge of overcoming the limits of our imagination?" The only speaker was Alexander Manu, the Industrial Design Chair at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
Absolutely fascinating talk that I came into about halfway through. Everyone I've spoken with who was there is still buzzing about it. Someone actually blogged it as the talk was happening. Kind of odd, but useful if you were there to bring back some awareness of context.
In any event, the basic thesis seemed to be that we could model work as play, approaching it with a more open mind and stimulating our creativity. That this would lead to more productive work. I'm representing the ideas very poorly here but it seems well worth my well to go find some of his papers or texts and read them.
Posted by artandscience at March 12, 2005 11:27 AM