Author Archives: Creativity & Innovation

Creativity is an “engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways.” (Glăveanu & Beghetto, 2021, p. 75).   An evidence-based invitation to play Last block, CC students from across disciplines were given something familiar to many—LEGO®—and then asked to approach the small plastic blocks in unfamiliar ways. Working with changing …

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Unlocking creativity through unexpected connections Creativity is “a principled engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways.” (Glăveanu, V., & Beghetto, R. 2021).   How do unexpected connections work? When we are forced to make connections between unrelated things, we break established familiar thought patterns, and creativity unfurls. This …

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Changing Our Relationship to Failure Creativity is an “engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways.”  (Glăveanu & Beghetto, 2020)     Creativity Mindset: Risk Failure Cultivating creativity involves a willingness to take productive risks and fail. When we become more willing to fail (and when we are allowed to), …

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Creativity is “a principled engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways.”   (Glăveanu & Beghetto, 2021)   Pathways to Creativity C&I offers pathways to build and operationalize creative courage, which provides faculty, staff, and students opportunities to develop the essential building blocks of creativity–both mindsets and practices.  A full-size version …

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Block 1 In the Loop and Block 2 Updates Please find Block 1 In the Loop and Block 2 updates and information from Staff Council below. If you have questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to email us at email us or submit via the Ask Staff Council page on the website. When we get …

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Definition of Creativity at C&I? Creativity is “a principled engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways.”   (Glăveanu, V., & Beghetto, R. 2021)   As part of the Crown Center for Teaching, C&I’s mission is to support, cultivate, and amplify creative teaching and learning across campus.  We offer pathways to …

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The Creative Life with Jane Hilberry  Willa McLaughlin, ’27 On my first day of class at CC, I was asked to describe how I felt as a form of weather. We went around the room, one filled with art supplies and posters, and shared small details of ourselves through descriptions of rainy days or cool …

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Not Seeing Giraffes Jessica Hunter, PhD Director of Creativity & Innovation    While working in Uganda in 2015, members of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute encountered a Nubian giraffe that measured just nine feet, four inches tall. (For context, the average height of a fully grown giraffe is 14 – 18 …

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Introducing the Student Facilitator Development Series (SFDS) C&I has created a new program for students interested in leading creative workshops called the Student Facilitator Development Series (SFDS). If the announcement above caught your attention, read on for more about the program. We encourage you to join us! This program builds upon students’ experience in an …

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Upcoming Events, Workshops, and Opportunities We Don’t Have a River A Panel Discussion About Monument Creek Hosted by C&I Innovator in Residence, Erin Elder Thursday, November 8, at Taste in the FAC 5:30 – 7 p.m. RSVP requested Thinking About Half-Block? Take a look below… Looking for a Creative Escape?  Creative Mondays  Mondays, 3 – 4:30 …

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