Dear all,
Innovation is a slippery fish (if not an eel). Mostly we conflate the bringing about part (novate) with its sister experience, invent (stumble upon). Sure, innovate carries the baggage of renovate (just changing things a bit to make them like new), but we must take account of the phenomenological moment of discover (oh gee, another sister) when we stumble on something that is there, available to consciousness, but not previously thought about.
What I am proposing is that we look at the liminal experiences involved with the processes of coming on something previously unknown to us whether that unknown is unknown to the larger world (possibly important discovery) or something like a kid finding another fossil of a cockroach (exciting for the kid, boring for the rest of us).
We obviously practice certain ways of setting out to innovate/discover/invent. Making the obviousness of what we do available to ourselves is part of what I would call a poetic.
cheers
keith russell
OZ newcastle
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