Tim Brown on creativity and play
via ted.com
Tim Brown demonstrates
In this Ted.com presentation (:30 minutes in length), Tim Brown demonstrates how, as adults we learn to fear the judgment of our peers. He explains how professionals need to relearn how to be playful in the work place. Go back to the things we learned as a child: Exploration, Building and Role Play.
Quickly conducting several games from the stage to the audience, Tim demonstrates how as adults we:
- self-edit as we are coming up with ideas – our desire to be original is a form of editing
- forget to be open to the questions: what is it? AND what can I do with it?
- need to use the materials around us to get our point across (lots of great prototyping examples in the last half of the presentation)
- should “try-on” experiences, as a form of role play
