Art As A Pathway To Self – Rebecca Tolk

Art As A Pathway To Self, Rebecca Tolk‘s 2021 Playful Creative Summit conversation with David Chislett, appealed to me on many levels. The dialogue was free-flowing. Tolk notes, for example, that she spends a good part of her time on inartistic efforts, such as her marketing, which can have a dispiriting effect on her creativity.…

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Make An Impact With Game-based Solutions – Rob Alvarez

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Rob Alvarez, Professor Game, was eye-opening as he and David Chislett discussed how to Make An Impact With Game-based Solutions during their 2021 Playful Creative Summit conversation. If playing games is hard work, developing them and introducing them to their players is even harder. Intelligent, successful game design involves careful research to understand what you…

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Bruce Honig Easy Ways to Fertilize Your Creative Self

Bruce Honig, IdeaGuides, gifted 2021 Playful Creative Summit attendees Easy Ways to Fertilize Your Creative Self in his discussion with David Chislett. Honig has a fascinating definition of creativity: “the act of doing something that we’re not familiar with  initially… Getting from here to there when we’re not really sure how to get there… So…

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Jenn Sandercock – Using Constraints to Innovate

Jenn Sandercock – Using Constraints to Innovate – collaborated in the 47th of 52 conversations of the 2021 Playful Creative Summit, chatting with Alyea Sandovar. She suggests that setting constraints on your creativity can be freeing, because it can eliminate the overwhelm someone might otherwise feel if s/he/they try to tackle everything in a project all…

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Anthony Trahair – Realise Your Potential Through Play

Anthony Trahair, another 2021 Playful Creative Summit contributor, offered Realise Your Potential Through Play in conversation with David Chislett. Trahair moved into play through a serendipitous introduction to juggling as he studied chemistry in his undergraduate days. He was in awe of his juggler roommate and the roommate’s juggler friends. Picked up three of their…

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Mario Izquierdo Boosting Creativity by Reducing TTP – TTP means how quickly a troll invades a virtual space

Mario Izquierdo, in his 2021 Playful Creative Summit Boosting Creativity by Reducing TTP conversation with Alyea Sandovar spoke about the value of learning the hard, boring, repetitive stuff as a foundation for creativity. He is an engineer by training, which he compared to learning how to bounce a basketball before you can play. His training provided…

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