Scholar Thomas Homer Dixon describes the “ingenuity gap” – the space between problems that arise and our ability to solve them – as growing today at an alarming rate (in business, scientific research, education, the environment and world affairs). Author Ken Robinson proclaims we are “Out of Our Minds” to have sidelined creativity and the arts when every layer of American society from elementary education to supply-side economics is starved for more imagination, more original thinking, more creative intelligence. John Cimino, president of Creative Leaps International, looks at the habits of mind linked to creativity, ingenuity and imaginative insight and reviews recent findings in neuroscience revealing the brain’s unique experience of the arts and arts-based thinking. Right along side creativity, Cimino emphasizes the need for connectivity, that is, thinking across boundaries, disciplines and cultures to address the complex issues of a globally inter-connected world. Designing “high tech, high touch” environments for creativity and connectivity is the central challenge of our institutions of higher education, research and professional development. Cimino concludes with his vision for a network of Renaissance Centers for Innovation, Learning and Leadership.
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1. DePaul Center, Creativity Forum Bridging the Ingenuity Gap in the 21 st Century Creativity, Connectivity and the Mind’s Best Work Creative Leaps International John J. Cimino, Jr. "Ancora imparo." ("I am still learning") Michelangelo at 87
9. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… Option I: Scholarship and Contemporary Research Option II: Da Vinci’s Insights
10. John Cimino Creative Leaps International "All our knowledge has its origins in our perception.“ Leonardo Da Vinci “ Everything is connected to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci
11. It is not logic which guides discovery and artful creativity, but perception and imaginative insight . Receiving from the outside… Conjuring from the inside… Now, imagine learning as personal discovery. (Vico) John Cimino Creative Leaps International "All our knowledge has its origins in our perception.“ Leonardo Da Vinci a footnote from neuroscience
12. Imagination = perception ? In terms of neurological events, our memories and imaginings of experience produce much the same experience as direct experience itself. (experiments using P.E.T. scans) The more we learn about learning and the brain, the more we learn how powerful our own beliefs are in creating what we experience as reality. Now, what’s the upside of this equation? a footnote from neuroscience
13. Imagination = perception ? In terms of neurological events, our memories and imaginings of experience produce much the same experience as direct experience itself. (experiments using P.E.T. scans) The more we learn about learning and the brain, the more we learn how powerful our own beliefs are in creating what we experience as reality. Now, what’s the upside of this equation? Imagination as interior sight and senses. a function of the physical body. a footnote from neuroscience
14. Fantasia Italian, for “imaginative insight”, (according to Vico) a knowing equivalent to the uniquely intimate knowing of an inventor or creator, more immediate and personal than knowing mediated via the stratagems of logic. “ Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Einstein
15. "All our knowledge has its origins in our perception.“ Leonardo Da Vinci One purpose of art is to alter the quality of our attentiveness -- to enhance, refresh and sharpen our perceptions . It is not logic which guides discovery and artful creativity, but perception and imaginative insight . Receiving from the outside… Conjuring from the inside… Now, imagine learning as personal discovery. (Vico) John Cimino Creative Leaps International a footnote from neuroscience
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30. "All our knowledge has its origins in our perception.“ Leonardo Da Vinci One purpose of art is to alter the quality of our attentiveness -- to enhance, refresh and sharpen our perceptions . It is not logic which guides discovery and artful creativity, but perception and imaginative insight . Receiving from the outside… Conjuring from the inside… Now, imagine learning as personal discovery. (Vico) John Cimino Creative Leaps International The arts inhabit and thrive at this cusp of perception and meaning-making, flexing both in favor of creativity, discovery and learning. The arts live here!
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34. When art works, play’s the thing Creative Leaps International John J. Cimino, Jr.
35. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. Plutarch
36. John Cimino Creative Leaps International “ Everything is connected to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer Double description, Lenses and Binocular Depth, Metaphor and Creative Juxtaposition The Medici Effect To think as Nature Thinks Steps to an Ecology of Mind Consilience Knowledge Integration
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38. a footnote from neuroscience Metaphor is defined neurologically as a spreading activation of the brain during learning. (Imaginative action) Governing Metaphors
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40. Discovery and innovation in today’s world are more likely to be found at the crossroads of our disciplines than at their established centers, more likely to be revealed at the collision points of our cultures than in their mainstreams. “Only connect”, said Bateson. “This is how we make meaning, this is how we learn to think as Nature thinks.” A working philosophy of interdisciplinary connections and knowledge integration The Medici Effect
41. John Cimino Creative Leaps International “ Everything is connected to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci Corson’s Inlet Transfer Double description, Lenses and Binocular Depth, Metaphor and Creative Juxtaposition The Medici Effect To think as Nature Thinks Corson’s Inlet Steps to an Ecology of Mind Consilience Knowledge Integration
42. Creative Leaps International John J. Cimino, Jr. “ I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning to the sea…” A.R. Ammons Thinking about thinking at Corson's Inlet Thinking and learning with other logics Corson’s Inlet Let’s take a walk…
43. … I see narrow orders, limited tightness, but will not run to that easy victory: still around the looser, wider forces work: I will try to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening scope, but enjoying the freedom that Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that I have perceived nothing completely, that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk. A.R. Ammons (1963) Thinking about thinking at Corson's Inlet
44. Consilience Literally, a “jumping together” of knowledge across disciplines, consilience is all about connections, revealing deeper, common groundworks of explanation. “ Everything is connected to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci
45. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… Option I: Scholarship and Contemporary Research Option II: Da Vinci’s Insights
46. Mind Processes of the Arts What do YOU think they are? What are your everyday names for these habits of mind?
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51. Coeur The French word for “heart” from which we also derive the word “courage”. The heart: our body’s gateway to another order of knowing. “The heart has reasons, which reason does not comprehend.” “ It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” St. Exupery a footnote from neuroscience
52. a footnote from neuroscience Emotional markers and learning The amygdala, in effect, tags each experience we have with an emotional marker. The stronger the emotion attached to an experience, the stronger the marker, the more intense our memory of that experience. Engaging emotion in learning invariably increases the vividness and retention of particular learning experiences. (UCI)
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54. a footnote from neuroscience Neurogenesis and neural plasticity We are constantly growing new brain cells and do so all our lives. Only we can decide what our brains will become. (a story…) Good news…
55. John Cimino Creative Leaps International "All our knowledge has its origins in our perception.“ Leonardo Da Vinci “ Everything is connected to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci So, how do we infuse creativity and connectivity into our schools, universities, organizations, businesses and communities? What sort of entity could serve as a catalyst, enabler or model for our 21 st century institutions? The Big Question:
56. Governing Metaphors Visual Images What sort of entity could serve as a catalyst or model for our 21 st century institutions? Visual Explorer
57. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership We envision a new institution, a uniquely 21st century center for learning, discovery and innovation which will bring together the domains of education, business, the arts and sciences in a revolutionary new research and learning environment. Vision
58. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership The performing and creative arts will occupy center stage at this new institution, but not as destinations in themselves, rather as lightning rods for creative thinking across the disciplines and as new lenses for problem-solving, dialogue and research. Research and Learning Environment
59. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership The challenges facing leaders in education, business and the social sector are today exceedingly complex and unsuited to solutions generated from within the silos of individual disciplines. Nor will these challenges will be resolved by a business as usual reliance upon traditional methods of analysis and the usual linear models of causality. Challenges
60. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership More than ever before, there is a profound need for more imagination and ingenuity, for new conceptual frameworks and fresh approaches to the complexities of our world. Where will this come from? We must look bravely to a species of thinking and learning that flows from incendiary new perceptions and vivid new unifying insights. “ Knowledge is limited,” Einstein reminds us. “Imagination encircles the world.” Imagination
61. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership Discovery and innovation in today’s world are more likely to be found at the crossroads of our disciplines than at their established centers, more likely to be revealed at the collision points of our cultures than in their mainstreams. “Only connect”, said Bateson. “This is how we make meaning, this is how we learn to think as Nature thinks.” A working philosophy of interdisciplinary connections and knowledge integration
62. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership Arts Creative, Performing, Interpretive Connectivity Interdisciplinarity, Knowledge Integration Research Creativity, Arts, Learning, Culture, Neuroscience Technology Creative, Educational and Systems Support Education Teacher Formation, Renewal, Professional Development, Educational Leadership, K-12 Arts Integration (The Learning Arts) Business, Government, NGOs Leadership, Creativity, Innovation, Resilience & CRO Services (Creative Leaps International) Living Systems Science and Human Values Sustainable Technologies, Education, Public Interest Imaginative Universities and Business Schools Creativity, Leadership, Knowledge Integration, Entrepreneurship Teaching Artists and Consultants Training, Mentoring, Professional Development Harnessing the power and vitality of the arts to help organizations and their leaders access multiple creative connections, deeper personal insights and rich new solutions to the challenges at hand Serving five inter-connected constituencies
63. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership Why a “Renaissance” Center? Renaissance , from the French and Latin, meaning “re-birth” 1. Historically , the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14 th century in Italy, lasting into the 17 th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science 2. Universally, a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity We seek a 21 century renaissance of the human spirit -- enlivened by creativity, impassioned by learning and guided by wise and compassionate leadership. We seek a more vibrant and mutually sustaining relationship with our planet Earth. We seek a vigorous interplay among the arts, sciences and entrepreneurial pioneers. We seek ideas across all boundaries, cultures and disciplines. We seek a peaceful, sustainable, equitable society. The Renaissance provoked inquiry, encouraged criticism, revealed a deeper, freer human nature, shattered narrow mental barriers and connected the disciplines of knowledge in a three century burst of creativity and invention. Achievements of the Renaissance : a new way of regarding the material world and human nature, a new conception of humankind’s destiny and duties on this planet, a new culture and new intellectual perceptions penetrating every sphere of thought and energy -- and on the world stage, new reciprocal relations among the nations.
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65. Renaissance Center for Innovation, Learning and Leadership Enter the mind processes and disciplines of the arts. Synthesis Facility with metaphor Recognizing patterns Solving problems in the absence of rules Using imagination to see multiple perspectives Learning to pay attention to nuance Finely crafting with attention to detail Comfort with ambiguity and paradox Integrating input from the periphery of awareness: “peripheral learning” Rigorous, disciplined preparation Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal Resisting closure: not connecting the dots too soon An iterative working style keyed to deadlines Engaging emotion as an integrator of learning Expressing figuratively what cannot be expressed literally Ensemble approaches to leadership and peak performance Working with multiple levels of meaning and alternate modes of expression Creating affirmative thinking environments where something different begins to feel possible
66. Faculty of Creative Leaps International Richard Albagli “ The Hero’s Journey” Donna Wissinger “ Top Form: Habits of Excellence” Paul Spencer Adkins “ Of Color and Courage” Jon Klibonoff “ Risk, Focus, Flow” Dianne Legro “ The Kinesthetics of Leadership” John Cimino “ Leadership: Thinking, Perceiving & Judgment”