Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

http://www.ted.com At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).

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[marsCubed]

Something I should say is that breaking away from peer opinion is incredibly difficult, It is someting which often marks the better students out from others. It actually requires a degree of bravery and illicits hostile rivalries, it can often perceived as arrogance. It may in fact often explain why male students do better in the Art world also. The creative process is an act of will. It is stepping out of the stuff everyone knows and changing the world with something original or completely new

[kurtilein3]

you can watch it on their website, with better quality.

they just re-upload their stuff here on youtube.

[marsCubed]

@SexyRaww

IMO people should look at & try to understand other Artists as much as they can. Particularly ones that relate to their own work.

What I meant to say was the direction ones take is one's own, Be aware that excellence does often involve novelty, mood, ideas, stuff that captures people's imagination.. it's is a visual language. and Artists saying things with it. It can take some courage.

With Art especially, Everybody is a critic. One needs to be able to deal with that.

[SexyRaww]

@BIOLOGICALSCUM What does growing up even mean? Are you sure you know? Or you just blindly limited by your life that's going to end one day anyway? O.o

[SexyRaww]

@marsCubed I know what you mean. I'm an art major in university. I never understood the comparing thing though. My teacher would show me Gogh, and I would appreciate it and understand his techniques but they just aren't my techniques. I'm not Gogh, I'm myself. I wish they took out the comparing thing. If students wanted to compare themselves to great masters, they can do it on their own. For me, it's just tedious and doesn't do anything.

[SexyRaww]

@marsCubed Ya, exactly. I think society can be just plain silly. They think they're "growing up" but they're just failing to see the entire picture. We all have a life that will end one day, every single person is just going to be another pile of bones in the ground. In that sense, we are united in this World. We need to let go of our egotistical perception of social status because it is just based on insecurity and not progress. What is so bad being creative? Oooh so criminal. lol.

[SexyRaww]

@iTellyoueveryting Nah, I would just acknowledge that I didn't know anything about the instrument. And I'd tell the writer, "I don't know shit about this instrument, so here goes, you asked for it" lol.

[SexyRaww]

Hmm...As an artist, I do get allot of negative looks from people just for being "free" with myself and having the confidence to be wrong. Of course, it sometimes makes me feel insecure but it doesn't stop my creativity. I just accept that in life, both bad and good feelings come. It's funny because, with me, my creativity "stops" when I try to fight off the insecurity. I learned to accept all of myself. That's how creativity happens for me and most other artists I know...

[razielze]

GODDAMIT TED YOUR INTRO IS SO LOUD ITS OUTRAGEOUSLY ANNOYING TUNE THAT CRAP DOWN

[HumanEscent]

Hmmmm: Play. Profound! Know it, Love it!.

[deathmelon6789]

We don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

So true.

[iTellyoueveryting]

Rather get them to draw a picture of the room they would NOT be apologetic but would probably laugh at what they drew. The apologetic feeling did not come from the fear of other peoples opinions, it came from not portraying the person they drew the way they were or even intended to.