About The Event
3 Workshop Event (APRIL 15 – 17)
Iain Kerr is a designer, systems thinker, and social entrepreneur, working at the intersection of creativity, ecology, and emergent systems. With a background in Architecture, Design, Art and Philosophy he brings a unique perspective to issues of social innovation, design and entrepreneurship. His work is focused on inventing novel creative processes to transform seemingly intractable problems into problems worth having. Iain has spent the last two decades developing and teaching unique transformative models of creative processes. (See more details of Iain’s bio below.)
MODES OF INTERACTION with IAIN KERR
LECTURE – We Have Creativity All Wrong – Friday April 15th 4 – 5:30pm UH iLab
What is Creativity? Why do we treat it as a thing that someone could possess? Why are we looking for it somewhere in the brain? Would it make any sense to look for “flight” in a wing? It is time to radically rethink creativity and how we teach it. Iain Kerr Associate Professor of Innovation Design and Co-Director of the MIX Lab (@MSU) presents a new model of creativity and host a discussion session on rethinking creativity. Join us.
WORKSHOP – Designing for Creativity – Saturday April 16th 9 am – 5pm UH iLab
A creativity boot camp – This will be a hands-on, interactive workshop that takes on the radical challenge of understanding and teaching creativity in an entrepreneurship and design setting. Iain will both introduce new, highly effective models of Disruptive Creativity, Paradigmatic Switching and Worldmaking, as well as present tools to transform design/entrepreneurship teaching in the face of the paradigmatic challenge that disruptive forms of creativity presents to design, business and entrepreneurship. The workshop takes participants through the fast-paced, creative process that makes up The Innovation Design Framework (in which participants will collaboratively make something innovative in real time). The workshop is appropriate for faculty and students across the university, including design, engineering, architecture, computer science, science, communication, and more. Participation is limited to 33 places.
RSVP for this workshop (lunch is included), to Maureen Izon (mbizon@hawaii.edu)
WORKSHOP FOLLOW-UP – Monday Morning/Afternoon –April 17th 10 am – 12 pm (place to be determined)
A Morning session to carefully debrief on the workshop. The final part of the workshop will focus directly on teaching creativity and the ramifications of using models of Disruptive Creativity in entrepreneurship programs. Teachers will leave with tools, concepts, skills and motivation to creatively transform models of design, teaching and entrepreneurship (as well as a handy review booklet).
REVIEWS CRITS AND DROP-INS
Iain is available to come and meet with classes, participate in studio reviews, or any other formal
or informal activity while on campus Friday April 15th and Monday April 17th out side his formal lecture and follow-up class
More on Iain Kerr
As the co-director of the MIX Lab Iain has developed new curriculum for using 3d printing to activate design thinking processes far from the normal realms of Industrial Design and Engineering. This innovative curriculum is at the heart of the lab’s certificate program in Innovation Design and Rapid Prototyping, as well as at the forefront of reimagining Design Thinking as a powerful tool of innovation at all scales of action. In addition to co-directing the MIX Lab Iain is a co-founder of the boundary blurring design consultancy SPURSE which has been at the forefront of ecological research, experimental design, and innovation leadership for the last fifteen years. While developing ground breaking ways to probe, catalyze, disrupt and re-imagine systems both large and small they have collaborated with communities, organizations, and individuals from the high arctic to the inner cities in Bolivia. Their award winning projects reveal an astonishing range of creative solutions to effecting real change: from restaurants, wetlands, wayfinding apps, urban renewal programs, micro-biology laboratories, cookbooks, buildings, everyday tools and more.
Iain regularly works as a consultant, lecturer and workshop leader on creativity, innovation and design (MIT, Harvard University, Columbia University, Parsons, Yale, CCA, and RISDI). His work, and that of SPURSE, has been exhibited internationally: USA, Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Mexico and Bolivia as well as published in books and journals (Furnitecture, The Interventionists, The Object of Labor, Experimental Geography, The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Surface, ID, New York Times, Elle, Teme Celeste, Art Papers, Monitor, Interior Design, and Art Journal). Currently Iain is working on a book on Innovation Design, Ecology and Social Entrepreneurship.
Peter Crouch at pcrouch@hawaii.edu
