Creativity Challenge 2002

Too Much Creativity

Creativity Challenge 2002 #21

Last week I spent time in London and a few towns around London working with a client and visiting a mix of friends. I was there to do a series of 4, 3-hour sessions on creative thinking as part of an internal Innovation Fair for the client company.

This morning after waking up following an 18-hour return trip having left the Rathbone Hotel near Soho in London at 7:30 to arrive at my home after 8:30 pm in Athens, Georgia the idea for this Creativity Challenge evolved in my mind.

CAN WE BE TOO CREATIVE?
Can having everything and everyone be creative all the time create a problem?

Experiencing an intensive and extensive mix of the English countryside and a mix of London neighborhoods, museums, monuments and tourist attractions threw my mind into a spiral. Whether riding in the back of a hired taxi through the country, walking the streets of Soho or along the Thames, riding anyone of several Underground trains or rushing along the system of stairs, escalators and hallways leading from one line to another I found myself surrounded with creativity. The creativity represented centuries of creativity from hundreds of years and philosophies of design.

Once again I ask...
CAN WE BE TOO CREATIVE?

This week imagine what it would be like to have too much creativity.

MONDAY
List all the adjectives or nouns you can think of that would describe the ultimate of creativeness, i.e.: Wow!, Fantastic, Ecstatic, Beautiful, Tremendous

TUESDAY
Flip through fashion or design magazines and imagine if everyone was dressed in the most creative clothes all the time. What would life be like?

WEDNESDAY
Pay attention to the buildings and cars that you see all day and make note of the most creative ones. Imagine what it would be like if only the most creativebuildings were built and people only drove the most creative cars. What would our streets be like?

THURSDAY
Focus on nature: forest, gardens, planting areas, plants, flowers, trees, bushes, shrubs. Imagine what it would be like if only the most creative looking plants existed in a forest or garden.. What would our gardens and forests be like?

FRIDAY
Today think about the idea that perhaps our societies, cities, gardens, homes, offices, companies, organizations were totally creative all the time. What would they be like?

Please share your ideas and experiences.

Have a creative week when, where and how you choose.

Alan

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