Mea culpa. May I hereby nominate Monica Wachowicz to join the group
and continue the discussion?
Linda Naiman
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Stephen Carroll
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My immediate reaction to this is - how about the observable fact that simple
> discourse or great conversations with the right people are so important in
> stimulating creativity. I was in a psychology PhD program at the University
> of Minnesota which turned out to be incredibly oppressive in an intellectual
> sense. All of my fellow PhD students pretty much told the same stories, had
> the same heroes, and had the same values and attitudes. Statistics and
> psychometrics reigned supreme. When I first met my artist wife she
> introduced me to two bars in Minneapolis where TAs from English, Art,
> Philsophy, and History hung out. What a difference! I was constantly
> challenged. These different graduate students made me think and challenge
> my former assumptions. The bars were the Mixers and the East Hennepin in
> case you know Minneapolis.Does the habit of visiting pubs on a regular
> basis make the Irish so interesting? ( I have a cousin who owned a pub in
> Ireland for many years and I spent some time there.) When I lived in Tokyo
> on sabbaticals I saw how Japanese executives would hit the bars together to
> solve organizational problems. In my later consulting experiences several
> companies did create social internal layouts that put different business
> specialities together instead of occuping distinctive spaces. This created
> ruitful discussions and much learning of new perspectives. My longtime
> colleague Judy Olian, now Dean at UCLA, did the same when she helped
> designed a new business school at Penn State. It seems to me that the
> usefullness of these arrangements could be studied in an empirical way.
> Given the importance of creativity in today's world, I would think funding
> opportunities would be plentiful.
>
> As an early member of AACORN and before that the Fringe Cafe of the Academy
> of Management ,both devoted to fostering creativity in organizations, I
> think we should draw upon all the members of AACORN and not just exchange
> personal e- mails on issues brought up here.
>
> Steve C.
>
>
>
> Stephen (Steve) Carroll
> Maryland Business School
> 301/405-2239
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> -----"Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote: -----
> To: [log in to unmask]
> From: L Naiman
> Sent by: "Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network"
> Date: 05/03/2012 06:11PM
> Subject: Research project re: mobility patterns that demonstrate a
> distinctive ‘milieu’ or ‘creative field’
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I received a request from Monica Wachowicz a Professor at the
> University of New Brunswick working on discovering mobility patterns
> from big data for a grant proposal.
>
> She is looking for help with her research project, and I thought
> members of AACORN could help.
>
> I am currently preparing a research grant proposal which will further
> my research on understanding how lifestyle behaviours are dictated by
> social interactions and their digital mobility patterns. I was
> wondering if you could help me on identifying some examples of types
> of lifestyle behaviours that demonstrate a distinctive ‘milieu’ or
> ‘creative field’ – places where density, diversity, authenticity and
> connectivity converge to generate both the raw material and the
> product of creative economy. I need some concrete examples for
> improving my proposal.
>
> Please contact Monica Wachowicz directly:
>
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Phone: (506) 292-0253
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Linda Naiman
> Corporate Alchemist
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