Category Archives: Creative

Breaking Yourself

Posted on April 28, 2020 by julianstodd

Today i’m just sharing an illustration for the work around Curiosity and Creativity in Learning Design. This one is about the foundations of learning, and an idea i sometimes talk about around ‘disturbance’: the ways that learning is a process … Continue reading →

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Words About Learning: Creativity

Posted on September 4, 2017 by julianstodd

We are creative in different ways: in ideas, through art, through expression. Creativity is idolised as ‘something more’: a different type of voice, perhaps unquantifiable. Deeply personal. Claimed not granted. Organisations want ‘creative solutions’, meaning something outside their experience or … Continue reading →

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Creative Voices: Performance

Posted on June 1, 2016 by julianstodd

Yesterday i wrote a reflective post about fragility and impermanence. Today, i want to explore a related idea: performance. These pieces relate to a ‘Creative Voices’ session that i ran at the Social Age Safari, which used performance poetry and … Continue reading →

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Creative Disorder

Posted on September 14, 2015 by julianstodd

I seem to spend an increasing amount of time on the road these days, so it was with some excitement that i treated myself to a new travel bag: wheeled, to avoid carrying it when loaded with books, small enough … Continue reading →

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Heartbeat of the Social Age

Posted on July 27, 2015 by julianstodd

With a degree of trepidation i found myself on the roof of the old rum distillery: maybe five floors up and clutching the ladder with white knuckles. It’s not that the ground i stood on was particularly precarious (indeed, it … Continue reading →

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Creating Spaces: a framework for devolved creativity

Posted on July 15, 2014 by julianstodd

The Social Age requires agility, from both organisations and individuals. It’s a time of constant change and what we did yesterday may not work again tomorrow because the ecosystem is evolving around us. When Henry Ford gave us the production … Continue reading →

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Unleashing Creativity: getting fit for the Social Age

Posted on July 9, 2014 by julianstodd

“I’m not creative” is one of the most frustrating things people say to me. To define yourself by what you can’t achieve misses the point: creativity is not the end result, it’s the journey we take to get there. We … Continue reading →

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San Francisco and the Artists of Innovation

Posted on June 18, 2014 by julianstodd

Toby and Joe each have their own studio, facing onto the garden, separated by a common area: neutral ground. Both lifelong artists, they’ve welcomed me into their home in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, turning over their garden cabin to me … Continue reading →

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Unlocking Innovation in Teams

Posted on June 9, 2014 by julianstodd

It’s been a fascinating week, delivering the prototype workshop around ‘Creativity, Co-Creation and Agility‘ and reflecting on how to unlock innovation within teams. There’s a clear dynamic between permissions, creative spaces, creative processes, improvisation and narrative. Whilst i don’t feel … Continue reading →

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Creative Space

Posted on May 29, 2014 by julianstodd

In my mind, this was going to be creative. About creativity. I’d dedicated hours to writing, crafting in my head a reflective post of great wit and insight. But then I hit London and it all went wrong. As I … Continue reading →

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