Thursday, October 6, 2011

Creativity and open collaboration for a new value system

Finding new solutions is quite hard. We all heard the phrase "we need to think outside the box", but most people probably do not know what that really means. This phrase implies that we are somehow limited in thinking. What could those obstacles be? Most of the time the obstacle is our knowledge or our believes that converges our thinking towards the same known or similar solutions.

We are very well educated in the field of following instructions to solve problems, not so much in the field of finding new solutions. Sir Ken Robinson claims we get educated out of our creativity. To understand this claim watch his funny and eye-opening talk:

and another:

This two videos should help us to be more aware of our limitations and thus stepping out of the box.

While knowledge does help us to solve our everyday problems, expanding that knowledge and to improve the processes of our problem solving is much harder. Also note that any established system implies some resistance to change

In compliance of open development model I do wish to challenge the reader, to come up with their ideas and proposals. If you were to design a new society from scratch, how and what would you do? Please take some time to think about it. I am very interested to hear your ideas.

Next time I will present what I have came up with up until now.

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