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Emergent Futures Lab is Coming to Minneapolis!

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Workshops & Events
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An Interview with Emergent Futures Lab by GovWebWorks

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Interviews, Podcasts and Videos
Diagramming Exaptation

Exaptation is Not a One Step Process for Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Exaptation
Crow on a rock contemplating if creativity can be leanred

Can Creativity Be Taught?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Emergent Futures Lab preview their keynote talk for IRDG

Preview: Keynote Presentation - Creating Radical Breakthrough Innovation

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Announcements
Human conceptualizing the 6 myths of creativity

Six Myths of Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Stages of a Snowflake

Invention Is Already Part of Reality

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Crow innovation rebel

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
innovation as a metaphor

Mapping, Metaphors and Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Mapping the topology of innovation processes

Mapping Strategies and Innovation Processes

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Drawing of a person surfing a wave

Creativity and Constraints

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
4 stages of innovation process - complexity science enactive cognition Epicycle Feedforward Exaptive Processes

How Does the New Come Into Being?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Crow wishing humans used weather forecasting language

On Constraints, Attractors and Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Examining a brain

Creativity: It was Never in Your Head

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Design Thinking is Anti-Creative

Three Reasons Design Thinking Principals Are Anti-Creative

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
Crow on a billboard at sunset

Where Does Organizational Creativity Come From?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
two people under a tree with tools

Processes are Self Governing

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Two girls being creative

Process Radically Reorients Approaches to Creativity and Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Diagramming the innovation process

What is Innovation? A Process...

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Process
Steps of the innovation process

How to Create Novel, Disruptive Innovations

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Process
Pylling strings of the cats cradle

Things Are More Than Interdependent — They Are Intradependent

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
45 takeaways from 45 Emergent Futures Newsletter volumes

45 Highlights from 45 Innovation & Creativity Newsletters

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
Less is less

We Need Less, Not More

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Models
two people under a tree on a windy day

Creativity Emerges From the Middle

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Iceberg as a metaphor for mental models

Icebergs Don't Model Reality

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity Models
Crow on a billboard telling us to invent problems

Mindset Innovation… It's Time to Move On

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Crow offering a philosophical view on perspective

Creativity Is Not About Ideas

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Innovation is a Process

A New Approach to Creativity - Enactive Cognition

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Sense Making
Salamander jumping off a Lilly pad

When Innovation Happens Worlds Are Made

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Worldmaking
Examining problems for innovative outcomes

How to Leave Problems

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Measuring novelty for innovation and creativity

How to Invent Problems

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Comparing Design Thinking to other creativity models

Why Use Models of Creativity That Are Anti-Creative?

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity Models
innovation as an aesthetic activity

Innovation: Sense Making and Aesthetics

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Sense Making
Creative Blocking for innovative affordances to emerge

On Creativity, Constraints and Blocking

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Snowflakes self-organizing into a field of creativity

What Does Innovation Look Like Beyond the Ideation Framework?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Sense Making
Western creativity is a greekmyth

The Greeks Did Not Have “Creativity”

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Problems worth solving

Innovation — It’s About Problems

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
What happens before thinking?

What Happens Before Thinking?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Crows talking about Ursula Le Guin quote of uncertainty

Practices for Probing: An Innovation Strategy

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
How to Engage with Emergence

How Do We Effectively Engage With Emergence

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
Sticky notes floating through a street

Design Thinking Is Just the Best Branded Methodology

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity Models
Creativity is a result of emerging systems

Systems are Creative: On Emergence and Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
The authorship of creativity

Where Does Creativity Come From - The Brain of a Genius?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Proposing Alternative Models of Creativity

Comparing “Primary Gestures” for Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Quote - if a river is human what happens to human centered design

What Becomes of Human Centered Design When A River is a Human?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Worldmaking
Crow reveals other worlds

You Are of a World Where Other Worlds Are Possible

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Worldmaking
Two crows unfurling creativity

Creativity Challenges Who We Are

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Worldmaking
Practicing creativity

Propositions and Exercises for a New Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
10 Ways to be More Creative

10 Creativity Concepts to Test in 2022

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
22 Tips for Creativity in 2022

22 Ways to be More Creative and Innovative in 2022

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
Time for a New Creativity

Creativity is Not in Your Head: Our Best Creativity and Innovation Articles of 2021

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Creative exercises for designers and artists

One of Our Favorite Exercises for Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Book on Disruptive Innovation with Bookmark and Sticker

Disruptive Innovation Book Excerpt: from Innovating Emergent Futures

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity and Innovation Books
Unintended possibilities is creativity

Unintentionality is the Story

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Velociraptors discussing creativity tools

The Most Accessible Creativity Tools

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
Creativity vs Ideation

Creativity Eats Ideation for Breakfast

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Tom Morello exploring creativity with his guitar

An Example of Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Cooking eggs has many variables

Creativity: Constraints, Fields and Systems

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Whirlpool in a River

Creativity is Less

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Cats Cradle Game

Creativity Is in the Middle

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
What else can you do with a coffee mug

Creativity Hides Everywhere All Around

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Be Like a Crow and ask what else can something do?

Creativity “And What Else Can It Do?”

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Environments Creativity is the beginning of all creativity

How Can We Be Creative?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Diagram of how snowflakes are formed

Environmental Creativity: How Snowflakes Form

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Reality is Creativity

Reality is Creativity

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
The creativity paradox - seeing what cannot be seen

The Creativity Paradox: How Can You Recognize What Has Never Been Seen?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Where Abstract Thinking Comes From

The New Cannot Be Seen or Thought

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Diagram of the Greek Model of Making and Creativity

9 Types of Innovation Models - They’re All the Same

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Models
If thinking is not in your head - where does it happen?

Thinking Is Not in Your Head

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Comparing business Innovation Models

Are All Innovation Models the Same?

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Models
Changing Developmental Systems Theory to Innovation Manifesto

Creativity Without Brainstorming Ideas

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Creativity is more than ideas

Where Did Your Big Idea Come From?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity Models
Jason Frasca & Iain Kerr winning best overall poster at VentureWell 2018

Emergent Futures Lab Interviewed by NJ Tech Weekly

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Announcements
God's divine plan for earth

You Can’t Do Innovation Till You Realize What It Is Not

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity Models
Montclair Design Week 2021 - Emergent Futures Lab Innovation workshop

You Can’t Get to Novelty if You Focus on Ideas

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Bob Weir on LSD in the Other One

What’s Your Drug of Choice for Creativity?

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Innovation Process
Harvard Business Publishing email invitation for Design Thinking

Harvard's Got Innovation All Wrong

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Models
Creativity Book: Innovating Emergent Futures

Announcing: New Book on Creativity and Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Announcements
Innovation Workshop at MDW 2021

Innovation Workshop at Montclair Design Week 2021

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Announcements
Lists of Innovation Rules

79 One Sentence Innovation Tips

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Process
You can't think of ideas

Where Do Ideas Come From?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity & Innovation
Historic Creation Model

The Principles of Design Thinking Prevent Creativity and Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Creativity Models
There are no aha moments in innovation

Aha moments Don't Exist in Innovation

By 
Jason FrascaIain Kerr
Creativity & Innovation
Emergent Futures Lab Launches Website

Emergent Futures Lab Launches Website

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Announcements
Innovation Design Approach prototype in Making is Thinking paper

Making is Thinking - How Doing Transforms Innovation

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Presentations
Journey of innovation

A Guide to the Strategic Innovation Journey

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Models
Process of Design Thinking

Why is Design Thinking so Bad at Radical Innovation?

By 
Iain KerrJason Frasca
Innovation Models
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