Creativity and the Brain
The Brain is still a largely unexplored territory. We as professionals, companies and economies are becoming increasingly dependent upon the invisible processes that take place in our brains to create new thought and to constantly innovate. What processes take place when we are creative and what can we do as individuals and organisations to stimulate maximum creativity? how does the brain work, how do we work it, and how does the brain work us?
e-Types has the privilege to invite you to an exclusive talk by Brain Scientist Hans Henrik Knoop who is among the leading researchers on the brain, creativity, play and learning. He is reknown for his ability to relate what is basically a quite complex and theoretical subject in a way that makes it come alive and makes it personally relevant, interesting, and even funny through his use of daily life examples to illustrate complex issues.
Hans Henrik Knoop will be introduced by Silje Kamille Friis who is doing her industrial PhD on design method and practice sponsored by e-Types and Learning Lab Denmark.
Hans Henrik Knoop will be touching upon the following subjects as a starting point for questions and discussion:
- How does the brain work? Where is creativity located and spurred and how can you stimulate the brain to be more creative?
- How do you distinguish and promote different kinds of creativity?
- Which types of situations and organisations promote what types of creativity?
- How do you distinguish between stress and flow, and what happens when you move between stress and flow situations?
- What can be done to achieve a maximum level of creativity for you as an individual or company
Hans Henrik Knoop
Hans Henrik Knoop is an associate professor of the Danish University of Education. His main fields of research are creativity, complexity, play, learning and organisation. He is a participant in Howard Gardner’s “Good Work Project” at Harvard University. He is a member of the LEGO International Panel on Playful Learning and a reviewer of articles for LEGO web direct with Dorothy Singer of Yale University. Furthermore he participates in a number of scientific committees and has been an adviser to the Danish Government and the Danish Ministry of Education on issues such as ICT and personal development in education.
Silje Kamille Friis
Kamille is educated from the School of Architecture in Aarhus and has worked for LEGO as well as MIT Media Lab. She has run her own design company before joining e-Types where she is performing her research project on design methods and practice with Professors Hans Siggaard of CBS and Lotte Darsø, Learning Lab Denmark as advisers. Furthermore Professor John Heskett of the Illinois Institute of Design (currently Hong Kong) is the international advisor on the project.
The Brain is still a largely unexplored territory. We as professionals, companies and economies are becoming increasingly dependent upon the invisible processes that take place in our brains to create new thought and to constantly innovate. What processes take place when we are creative and what can we do as individuals and organisations to stimulate maximum creativity? how does the brain work, how do we work it, and how does the brain work us?
e-Types has the privilege to invite you to an exclusive talk by Brain Scientist Hans Henrik Knoop who is among the leading researchers on the brain, creativity, play and learning. He is reknown for his ability to relate what is basically a quite complex and theoretical subject in a way that makes it come alive and makes it personally relevant, interesting, and even funny through his use of daily life examples to illustrate complex issues.
Hans Henrik Knoop will be introduced by Silje Kamille Friis who is doing her industrial PhD on design method and practice sponsored by e-Types and Learning Lab Denmark.
Hans Henrik Knoop will be touching upon the following subjects as a starting point for questions and discussion:
- How does the brain work? Where is creativity located and spurred and how can you stimulate the brain to be more creative?
- How do you distinguish and promote different kinds of creativity?
- Which types of situations and organisations promote what types of creativity?
- How do you distinguish between stress and flow, and what happens when you move between stress and flow situations?
- What can be done to achieve a maximum level of creativity for you as an individual or company
Hans Henrik Knoop
Hans Henrik Knoop is an associate professor of the Danish University of Education. His main fields of research are creativity, complexity, play, learning and organisation. He is a participant in Howard Gardner’s “Good Work Project” at Harvard University. He is a member of the LEGO International Panel on Playful Learning and a reviewer of articles for LEGO web direct with Dorothy Singer of Yale University. Furthermore he participates in a number of scientific committees and has been an adviser to the Danish Government and the Danish Ministry of Education on issues such as ICT and personal development in education.
Silje Kamille Friis
Kamille is educated from the School of Architecture in Aarhus and has worked for LEGO as well as MIT Media Lab. She has run her own design company before joining e-Types where she is performing her research project on design methods and practice with Professors Hans Siggaard of CBS and Lotte Darsø, Learning Lab Denmark as advisers. Furthermore Professor John Heskett of the Illinois Institute of Design (currently Hong Kong) is the international advisor on the project.
