From: Liane Gabora (liane@berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri 28 May 2004 - 21:25:01 GMT
Innovative Minds to Gather in Windsor
IDEA (Industry, Design, Education and the Arts) Frontier 2004 -June 4, 5,
6, 2004
www.ideafrontier.org
Educators, artists, researchers, design professionals and students are
invited to gather with other innovative minds for the first annual IDEA
Frontier conference, being held in the Ford Center for Excellence in
Manufacturing at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, June 4, 5, and 6, 2004.
Participants will have their choice of 24 workshops and the opportunity to
network and dialogue with other motivated creative people. Leaders and
participants will be interactively expressing and developing their
innovative talents in a wide range of creative endeavors including
education, research, the arts, manufacturing and design.
Creativity experts at the conference will include keynote speaker Liane
Gabora, a Cognitive Psychologist from the University of California,
Berkeley. She will enlighten and delight us with her 'The Beer Can Theory
of Creativity.' Her talk discusses the concept that although a person may
be one can short of a six-pack, the plastic thingy that holds them together
is what makes it a six-pack. In other words, when it comes to creativity,
how your 'beer cans' are interconnected is as important as how many of them
there are. Her presentation will be part of a creative, multi-media opening
session that will feature two local artists: Mario Taradan and Jonathan
Armstrong.
Regional leaders include University of Windsor professors Ralph Johnson
(philosophy), Bruce Lee (music), Paul Rousseau (political science), Rod
Strickland, Noel Harding and Yeqiang Wang (visual arts), and Ford executive
Larry Smith, University of Detroit Mercy business professor Mike Whitty,
and theory of inventive problem solving expert Alla Zusman from Southfield.
Other leaders will arrive from Toronto, Boston, and New York.
The full program and a registration form can be found on the website:
www.ideafrontier.org
The Windsor Detroit region is currently engaged in a number of bi-national
and regional initiatives, including Cartunes on
Paradewww.cartunesonparade.org, the Green Corridor Project
www.utopos.net/gc/, and Create Detroitwww.createdetroit.com, which
exemplify only a small portion of the tremendous creative capabilities to
be found in the people who live and work along the Canadian-USA border.
The non-profit IDEA Frontier conference is the creation of three innovative
organizers who are: Paul Rousseau and Jennifer Scobie from Windsor,
Ontario, and Larry Smith, from Dearborn Michigan. IDEA Frontier 2004
sponsors are the American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, and St. Clair
College of Applied Arts and Technology www.stclaircollege.ca.
For more information, contact:
Paul Rousseau at 519 735-7959, 519 919-1172, or via e-mail: praxis@mnsi.net
Jennifer Scobie at 519 977-6767, or via e-mail: jupiterjen30@netscape.net
Liane
Gabora liane@berkeley.edu
<http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane>http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane
Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, VUB, Brussels Ph:
(32)2.644.26.77
Psychology Department, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 Ph: 510-642-1080
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