" Creativity is something we can all improve at... it is about daring to learn from our mistakes" James Dyson
I found an interesting article online the other day and I knew it was just right for U day. I will let the article speak for me today.
I have included this painting of a New Mexico sunset to remind ourselves to look UP, even when the challenge seems doomed to fail.
How creativity is helped by failure
A design college in the United States has just started a new
exhibition about creativity, which will run till January. It is called
"Permission to Fail". The curator asked a group of 50 prestigious
designers and illustrators to send in their mess-ups, rough drafts and
preliminary sketches so that they could be put on display.
Now,
this may seem like an odd thing to do. Most exhibitions are all about
the finished product, the pristine new car design, perhaps, or the
flawless painting. But the college, called Mount Ida in Massachusetts,
wanted its students to engage not with the finished article, but what
happened beforehand. They wanted to reach into the true characteristics
of how creativity happens.
Read on ...
