Where good ideas come from #2

This visual representation of Steven Johnson's work is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Where good ideas come from

People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
This from TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-09-21&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Leonardo's Basement

Leonardo's Basement is an innovative educational organization for children and their families. They create imaginative learning environments where girls and boys ages 6 to 16 design and build their creative ideas, mixing art, science and technology. They provide exciting building experiences for over 600 children a year and introduce their programs to thousands more at neighborhood and community events.

Move over kids - this looks like fun!

http://www.leonardosbasement.org/1history.php

Check out the video links as well.

Brainwashed

A book from the Change This series by Seth Goodin
http://sethgodin.com/sg/docs/brainwash.pdf

Making is Connecting

A great web site and video links.
David Gauntlett argues that making things, on-line or off-line, we make connections with others and increase our engagement with the world.
Web: http://www.makingisconnecting.org/
Really worth spending some time looking round.

The Business of Creativity

This from David Parrish:

I thought you'd be interested in this new short video about a business support project to help creative enterprises to grow and create jobs.

The Liverpool Creative Growth Initiative is a Merseyside ACME/Liverpool Vision project to help growing creative businesses.
Over 100 creative, cultural and digital enterprises have been assisted by this project to date.

The video features several creative businesses in the city and the Director of Merseyside ACME, Kevin McManus.

The video is online here:
http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2010/09/creative-regeneration.html

Bring on the learning revolution

Sir Ken Robinson on TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

How web video powers global innovation

http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-09-14&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

This is broken.

Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the 7 reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them
Seth Gooding at TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_this_is_broken_1.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-09-14&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

If you want to be original, start from a different box.

Peter Bergman in HBR.
http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/