Week 42, October 13th, 2014

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APD1CAID: Advanced level

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The Psychology Behind Messy Rooms: Why The Most Creative People Flourish In Clutter

Elite Today / Dan Scotti / August 13th, 2014 Ted talks / Pia mancini / october, 2014

hile it might look completely random to strangers, a lot of times, a person’s mess is very methodical – with respect to himself.

Psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, from the University of Minnesota, who set out to debunk this urban legend, didn’t confine her study to solely the desk. No, Vohs, clearly a creative mind, chose to think outside the desk. She just sounds messy. The creative kind of messy.

Using a paradigm consisting of one messy room and one tidy room, and a series of trials, Vohs concluded that messy rooms provoke more creative thinking – and provided scientific evi-dence!

The next question is, what exactly constitutes “creative think-ing,” and how will your pig sty of a room help?

Creative thinking, in its purest form, is thinking outside the lines of “conventional” reasoning. When considering this, it should be no huge shock that messy rooms containing possessions misplaced from their “conventional” locations would promote creativity.

I suppose if you prefer to “lay,” and I use that term very loosely, your clean clothes on the floor of your bedroom, whenthe empty dresser is only a few feet away – you’re certainlythinking outside the lines of conventional reasoning. And that same concept could be applied to more abstract conception.

Consider this from Albert Einstein, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?”

Obviously, Einstein’s desk looked like a spiteful ex-girlfriend had a mission to destroy his workspace, and executed it rather suc-cessfully. Yet, there’s no denying Einstein’s creativity.

ia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democ- racy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legisla-tive process, and run candidates who will listen to what they say.

Why you should listenAfter a disappointing brush with traditional political parties in Argentina, Pia Mancini realized that the existing democracy was disconnected from its citizens -- and that no one was likely to fix it.

In response, Mancini helped launch Democracy OS, an open-source mobile platform designed to provide Argentine citizens

with immediate input into the legislative process. To promote it, she helped found the Partido de la Red, a new party running candidates committed to legislate only as directed by constitu-ents using online tools for participation.

Einstein wasn’t alone. Mark Twain, too, had a cluttered desk. Perhaps even more cluttered than that of Albert Einstein. Mark Twain was one of the most imaginative minds of his generation.

If the likes of Einstein and Mark Twain don’t catch the attention of Generation-Y, I give you Steve Jobs. No wonder he invented iBooks, it’s clear he had trouble maintaining his real life ones. His desk, and office alike, were f*cking disasters. I suppose this just added to his brilliance.

So what does this mean to you? Trash your desks, trash your rooms and hope for a touch of genius? Not exactly. The rela-tionship between messiness and creativity is by no meanscausal. Being messy won’t find you waking up one morning more creative.

The two are, however, correlated. If you are “messy by nature,” perhaps finding a healthy medium between your usual mess and that urgency to clean, is optimal. By curbing your sloppy desk, room or tendencies, – keep in mind – you might also be curbing your overall creative tendencies.

Ultimately, the only way for you gauge the effectiveness of your mess-induced creativity is to go out and experiment for yourself. So, go ahead, make it rain with all your important files and paperwork, toss your clean clothes across the room, have a blast. See what you come up with, after.

PSA: If you have a roommate, tell him not to send me any hate mail if your dorm room turns into a zoo while you experiment with this. I am not liable for any of the future messes my read-ers may create.

Dan ScottiLifestyle Writer for

Elite Daily

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How to upgrade democracy for the internet era

“Using software to inspire public debate and enable voter engagement, Pia

Mancini hopes to upgrade modern democracy in Argentina and beyond.”

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Pia ManciniDemocracy activist

and TED-speaker

http://www.ted.com/talks/pia_mancini_how_to_upgrade_democracy_for_the_inter-net_era!ni realized that the existing demo

http://elitedaily.com/money/entrepreneurship/psychology-behind-messy-rooms-messy-room-may-necessarily-bad-thing/708046/

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The Trouble With Design Thinking

Stefan Sagmeister’s Hints On How To Be Happy

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CULTURE ON CAMPUSFREE CULTURE FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF – EVERY WEEK AT LUNCH TIME

NINA RAMSBYDate: Monday 20 OctoberTime: 12:10–12:50Place: Humanities Building,Vardagsrummet / (open space living room)

ina Ramsby is one of Sweden’s popular artists right now. With an extraordinary presence and a never-ending curiosity, this multi-instrumentalist, sing-songwriter and pro-ducer has been involved in numerous genres in ten high-profile groups and projects including: the hard rocking Salt, the mel-ancholy pop orchestra Grand Tone Music, the electronica band Baxter, collaboration with Nashville-based Brent Hunter in The World, and creative jazz in the Nina Ramsby Ludvig Berghe Trio.

Together with Martin Hederos (The Soundtrack of Our Lives and Hederos & Hellberg), Nina has also released the critically acclaimed albums “Visorna” (2004) and “Jazz” (2006) . On “Vi-sorna” they interpret in their responsive ways of songs by Cor-nelis, Fred Åkerström, Eva Dahlgren and Barbro Horberg. Nina wrote Swedish lyrics on “Jazz” to songs by Nina Simone, Stina Nordenstam, Sade and Billie Holiday. The lyrics are about gen-der identity confusion, hate, courage, desire, God, consolation and forgiveness.

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Inspiration

In a new book, Fahrenheit 212’s Mark Payne Chides Companies for their approach to design thinking – And suggests a different approach.

Want to read more?

http://omnifeed.com/article/www.fast-codesign.com/3036888/innovation-by-de-sign/the-trouble-with-design-thinking

Omnifeed / SARAH LAWSON / october 10th, 2014

CORE77 / Kat Bauman october 10th, 2014

oPENIDEO / oPENIDEO TEAMoctober 7th, 2014

cREATIVE APPLICATIONS Filip Visnjic /october 7th, 2014

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The happiest people are social, outgo-ing, religious, and married. As a single atheist, he chose to test three of the most widely used happiness harness-ing methods on himself. For three months each, he dedicated himself to meditation, cognitive therapy, and (legal) drugs. The upshot? He admits he may have ruined each experiment by falling in love during each new seg-ment, but in some capacity they all worked.

The Ebola crisis in West Africa has reached critical levels. Join OpenIDEO to develop fresh solutions to improve the health care workers’ ability to save lives, ensure family members can safely care for their loved ones and support communities in tackling this epidemic.

Created as a collaboration between The OCR and Pulitzer Prize winning re-searcher Ashkan Soltani, Floodwatch is a tool designed to empower individu-als to see how advertisers are profiling them, and to share data with privacy researchers in an effort to combat dis-criminatory practice.

Do you have any inspirational sites or blogs that you want to share with the rest of the school?

Send them in to wozzop@gmail.com

Read more at:http://www.core77.com/blog/events/design_week_portland_stefan_sag-meisters_hints_on_how_to_be_hap-py_27758.asp

Read more at:https://openideo.com/challenge/fighting-ebola/brief.html

Read more at:http://www.creativeapplications.net/news/you-are-not-your-browser-his-tory/

Thanks for your contributions

Future articles & photos can be sent to: wozzop@gmail.comby Thursday evenings. We love hearing from you!

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