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Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

by | Jul 12, 2013 | Architecture, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Process, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Maquette, Motivation, Process, Public Art, Rhonda Weppler, Trevor Mahovsky, Vancouver

Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
A childhood of risky business inspires

A childhood of risky business inspires

by | Jul 5, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Environmental Art, Innovation, Inspiration, Malcolm Gladwell, Motivation, Natalie Jeremijenko, Performance, Playing, Process

My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he’ll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic is it. Long before he pushed the physical limits of the human...
That’s one mother of another need met

That’s one mother of another need met

by | Jun 7, 2013 | Creative Process, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Process, Production, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Vancouver

In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear  — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C.It’s the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand  that the car we’re in be stopped and reversed. Now. Because even though I had no...