Christian Byrge

1. The Creative Platform
A didactic for sharing and applying
knowledge in interdisciplinary and
intercultural groups
Christian Byrge
Aalborg University, Creativity laboratory

3. The ”free space” to
indulge oneself into a
creating activity with
other people

4. Example of unlimited
application of knowledge

5. Horizontal thinking
+ =

6. Horizontal thinking
A burger that
+ = ?
tells you if it
is to old to eat

7. Horizontal thinking
+ =

8. Horizontal thinking
+ =

9. The Creative Platform
• Creativity is uninhibited application of knowledge
• Ideas are knowledge in action

10. The Creative Platform
Creativity is unlimited application of knowledge
Confidence
Diversified
Knowlegde
Motivation
Concen
tration

11. Kindergarten

12. Pillar #1 Confidence
• The fear of making mistakes
• The fear of making the wrong choise
• The fear that it will never work
• The fear of losing face
• The fear of feeling pain
• The fear of not being in control
• The choice of the safe ”NO…”
• The use of the discouraging ”YES BUT…”

13. The fear is in your mind
• Get drunk
• Get head over heels in love with someone
• ..or anything that will engages you in the present
• E.g. a 3D case

14. Pillar #1: Confidence
IDEAS have a life
Members do NOT have a life
Keep focus away from group members using play
Responsibility for process is by the facilitator
Process NOT to be discussed

15. Pillar #1: Confidence
Headache, toilet, smoke etc - LEAVE without notice
Social activities are controlled through
small exercises
Do not comment or discuss - build on ideas
New ideas are buildt on the knowledge of prior ideas

16. Pillar #2: Concentration

17. Pillar #2: Concentration
Vertical Thinking

18. Pillar #2: Concentration
ONE TASK - ONE DEADLINE

19. Pillar #2: Concentration
Parallel Thinking

20. Pillar #2: Concentration
Allowance to focus
CONTROL THE PROCESS 100%
Allows them to focus 100% on getting the experince
of developing new ideas
Neurology= 2000/400B
Psychology= 7 (+/- 2)

21. This is a person focusing on
the task

22. Pillar #3: Motivation
• Hypothesis: Concentration + Confidence = Motivation
• Real allowance to celebrate success and failure (intrinsic
motivation)
• NO allowance for rewards, feedback, prices etc.
(extrinsic motivation)

23. Pillar #4: Diversified
Knowledge
• Access to diverse knowledge (regardless of problem area)
• Not children (lacks layers of knowledge)
• Any kind of knowledge or experience is considered
KNOWLEDGE

24. The Creative Platform
Creativity is unlimited application of knowledge
Confidence
Diversified
Knowlegde
Motivation
Concen
tration

25. Responses
• ...a releif to be allowed to concentrate for several
minutes at a time
• ...I can now see that it is more difficult to get a good
idea than I though before, but now I know how to do it
• ...I could have avoided a minor depression in my group
work, had I just known these tools before
• ...We produced more than double in the same period of
time

26. In Alaska, during ice storms along the coastlines, there are
major problems concerning removing ice from power lines
• There are a lot of bears in Alaska; maybe we can use them somehow.
• Yes, we could make them climb the poles, thus making the power lines vibrate, so
that the ice will fall off.
• …and if we place fresh meat on the top of each pole, this will attract bears, and
make them climb the pole to get the meat.
• Yes, and let’s bring the fresh meat in helicopters to the top of the poles.
• Hey, what about we let helicopters hover over the power lines. Their hovering will
vibrate the ice off the lines, thus solving the entire problem.
• Then we need stockpiles of gasoline in the area for the helicopter.
• Hey, what about pouring gasoline on the wire and burn the ice away?
• Yes, or we could wrap heating elements around the wires to heat it off?