Creative Innovation Conference - Inspirational




A couple of weeks down the track from the ci2011Conference and what has the Create & Innovate team been up to? Travelled to Sydney to The Ultimate Job event at Pyrmont on Tuesday night...sat next to the ex producer of The New Inventors (why on EARTH did they axe that show?), met Peter Westfield from Australian Innovation, got stuck in a lift with Alyce Platt (remember Neighbours in the 90's) and saw Joe Camallieri perform (know what you really want?).

Naomi Simpson (Red Balloon) gave a key note address. What an inspiring, innovative, creative individual. Check her out!

Too many questions

Creativity and Innovation are interesting concepts? In terms of Creativity and Innovation, what do we already know? What is it that already exists? What is new, or created, or innovated? What does it mean to be Creative or Innovative? Dr Phillip McIntyre (University of Newcastle) suggested to me that Creativity and Innovation actually operate under constraints. Rather than these constraints restricting processes, they are actually enablers of the Creative and Innovation processes. While my first instinct was to run as fast as I could in the opposite direction of, what I considered to be, a juxtaposed ideology, the more I ponder on Dr McIntyre’s “suggestion”, the more truth I find.