Submitted by Mechelle on Dec 10, 2009, 01:41 PM

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 04, 2009, 06:41 PM

Mary Lou Maher of NSF's "Creativity and Cognition" division has just opened her talk on "Enhancing Creativity and Implicaions for Design Cognition" with an essential and elegant insight. She's showing slides of preverbal infants playing with laptops and iPhones. As she notes, for these toddlers, these complex digital machines are "toys," no different from other toys. They play, they respond, they learn, they play more. When something doesn't work, they hand the toy (ie iPhone) to and adult, "Huh, huh," and the adult shows them how it works, and then the process continues.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 08, 2008, 03:52 AM
Spending a month at a scholar and artists' residency like the inimitable and incomparable Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria not only changes your work . . . it changes you!

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 05, 2008, 06:54 AM
A delightful YouTube video of an art installation/sculpture/invention by Mark Dixon . . . watch along with millions of others and smile!

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 13, 2007, 06:44 PM
Irvine Welsh (author of TRAINSPOTTING) has a new book of short stories coming out next month. I've ordered with my Amazon one-click because who can resist this title: If You Liked School, You'll Love Work