Innovation and the Humanities
Dublin-Humanities-Innovation-11-2011.pdf
Collaborative innovation networks: how to be interdisciplinary
How should we run collaborative interdisciplinary projects? In the academy and in business, in public agencies, and across all three sectors? In this talk I will outline what we have found over ten years of collaborative research and pedagogy in my labs at Stanford: Stanford Humanities Lab, Metamedia, Stanford d.school, and now VAIL, the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab, home of the Revs Program at Stanford.
For the Metamedia experience please visit http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/MetaMedia/
For more recent thoughts on the "T-character" and design thinking please see http://mshanks.com
What it is to be human: archaeological perspectives on human creativity
Drawing on my research into art and industry in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and into design history more generally, I will unpack several instances of innovation (urban design, ceramics, military infrastructures) in order to identify key transferable insights. The context is the proposition that a long term and genealogical perspective is essential in understanding creativity and design.
Here are the presentations I made last year on the same theme of Innovation and the Humanities
Dublin-Humanities-Innovation-11-2010.pdf
On collaboration in heritage - see my talk on the Faro Convention and archaeology - Link
