Sir Ken Robinson’s excellent TED talk on Schools Kill Creativity contends that all children have tremendous creative talent and the educational system squanders that talent by educating children to become good workers rather than creative thinkers. Ken Wantanabe, a former management consultant with McKinsey Consulting, has come up with an innovative response to this problem. His book Problem Solving 101 was written to support Japan’s children in learning how to problem solve and think critically. The book has been been a best seller for adults in Japan and internationally.

TED came to Dublin last Friday 12th June as part of the TEDx series of independent spin-off events. TEDx continues the same spirit of spreading exciting and inspirational ideas. The Science Gallery was the venue for Friday’s TEDx talk and only the fourth such event in Europe so far.

I posted on the 5th May about the collaboration of Guinness with Social Entrepreneurs Ireland .www.socialentrepreneurs.ie You may also have seen recent billboards around Dublin declaring that Everyone can be a change maker.
This is the tagline of Ashoka www.ashoka.org a global non-profit organization of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs focused on implementing solutions to the [...]

A landmark survey indicated that young children are amazingly creative; by the time they are adults this natural innate creativity is almost gone. How can we take some of that innate creativity and playfulness of the child’s world back to the adult world to elegantly uncover innovative solutions to challenges?

Last minute tickets meant we got to see the Irish screening of Gary Hustwit’s Objectified documentary film in the IFI, Dublin on the 2nd June. Screened as part of the IFI’s Stranger than Fiction festival James Kelly, artistic director of the festival introduced the film and director, Gary Hustwit, spoke briefly about his reasons for [...]