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We’re in a bunker – Except Leon, he’s somewhere else – What do creativity and innovation mean? What do we expect from them? – When the state invests in students, it wants to create revenue, it’s a capitalist thing – Artists are supposed to be creative – Can they help people with economic education create better products? – What do creativity and innovation mean in the context of art? – Art students want to be critical and ask questions – Da Vinci as universal genius – Everyone can’t be a new Da Vinci – Silicon Valley: “move fast, break things” – Danger of applying the same principle to everything – You can’t break down your entire health and body into a single drop – Leonardo was a TripAdvisor – Leonardo institute trying to create Renaissance Men – It’s competitive; very silicon valley – “Institute for Economic Growth” – Ideation – Techniques like Design Thinking/3-5-6 method – The Absatzwirtschaft – Creativity barriers: interpersonal conflicts/cultural backgrounds/intellectual property – Danger of putting results above everything else – Fill in the fucking blanks with something you know, not something new – Make a lot in little time – Superhero Method: what would Jesus do? – Beginner Level Creativity – Biomimicry: what would a bird do? – Design Thinking: everyone has to work like a designer, no matter their profession – Once you push the human-centered thing too far, everything else is left behind – Break down your problem; you don’t have to go to atomic level; just 1-2 levels deeper than most people – Capitalism is about the edges – It needs to expand – What is social innovation? – Censorship not necessarily a bad thing – What is education? You mimic your parents – What is the body’s physical reaction to innovation? – We all have back problems now – You get addicted to looking at your phone because you get a small endorphine dose everytime – At the presentation of the first iPhone, people were in joy – The first time i used YouTube for karaoke i lost my shit – Can something bad be innovation? – Like nuclear weapons – Is a rock star innovative? – In the first movie theatre, people got scared of the train in the movie coming towards them – People thought The War of the Worlds radio play by Orson Welles was real, because nothing like it existed before – There are funny artists – Put your hands behind your back when you look at art – Does art have to be innovative? – A lot of people only expect beauty – Does the artist reproduce an emotion that I have, too? Or do they make me feel something that I know, but in a different way? – Art has been trying to reinvent itself over time – Cave paintings were innovative when they were first done – Technology can take on the role of art; then, art has to find meaning in a different way – Art: changing your reality. getting at something bigger than you’re asked to – What does the language of innovation do? – Simon Denny uses the language of innovation the most – What is The New Thing? Probably AR – New Siri voice is going to be more organic by being more artificial – Airbnb/Share Economy has a social factor and a financial/capitalistic factor – Innovation is not always wanted – Use art as a tool for your life – In the future, that isn’t going to matter – It’s possible to apply a working principle and get a totally different/unexpected result – First Principles Thinking – Would an AI innovate better than a human? – Humans make innovations for themselves, not for nature – Would AIs innovate for AIs? – We need bees for avocados!