How Miami became a creative hotpsot

Ten years ago Miami was known mostly for its beaches and nightlife. Today it is a cultural destination with burgeoning ambitions. The city’s museums are expanding and its private spaces for art are increasingly active.http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/How+Miami+became+an+artistic+hotspot/25134
What lessons might we learn for our communities?

Some easy ways to teach creativity

You're never too old to make your mind agile, flexible, self-aware, and able to see patterns and connections that more rigid minds miss.
Here are some ways you might do that.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/11/the-kaleidoscope-mind-some-easy-ways-to-teach-creativity/248790/

Creative Dreaming

via Tara Grey Coste znd the American Creativity Association

For thousands of years, our ancestors believed dreams contain powerful messages. In very recent history, dreams have been dismissed as nonsensical bits of irrelevant information. The current scientific research is that dreams contain valuable information for problem solving and creativity.
http://republicanherald.com/news/slice-of-life-be-creative-with-your-dreaming-1.1235989

Creativity bursting forth

Shared by Tara Grey Coste and the American Creativity Association

Many of us abandon our creative impulses as soon as we shed childhood's exuberance. We become boxed in by adult constraints, rarely allowing ourselves open time for artistic play and exploration. Doing art for its own sake, the way a young child becomes immersed in the spontaneous glory of line and color, is gone. Whole afternoons making up songs on guitar become a thing of the past. Reclaiming this part of ourselves later on is one of the surprising pleasures of growing older.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-gets-better/201111/creativity-bursting-forth

They can't commoditize creativity

Britain and America need to reinvent their economies. That has been common ground since Lehman. As the nations who gained (and then lost) so much on the back of the supercharged financial centres of Wall Street and the City, the US and the UK have been forced to do a great deal of self-examination in recent years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-jefferson/smile-they-cant-commoditi_b_1108576.html

Creative Kiwis

Re:START have used shipping containers to create a temporary retail center on the site of the shopping mall destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake.
http://www.springwise.com/retail/temporary-shipping-container-mall-stimulate-economic-recovery-christchurch/

Creativity in pairs

What makes creative relationships work? How do two people—who may be perfectly capable and talented on their own—explode into innovation, discovery, and brilliance when working together?
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/creative_pairs/2010/09/two_is_the_magic_number.html

Paul Smith talks business

Here's a fascinating interview with fashion design guru Paul Smith, who talks about many aspects of growing a business in the creative industries. Shared by David Parrish
http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2011/11/paul-smith-interview.html

Live without regret

What are you doing about your forgotten dreams?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTFji8nDZPQ
Shared by Francois Coetzee

Creative Camping

For those of us who are about to enter summer - and have families!
http://dornob.com/tent-tenements-modular-system-connects-multi-unit-tents/