Emergent Futures Lab doing a workshop in Minneapolis, MN

Emergent Futures Lab is Coming to Minneapolis!

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Workshops & Events

Digital rendering of Iain Kerr and Jason Frasca of Emergent Futures Lab

An Interview with Emergent Futures Lab by GovWebWorks

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Interviews, Podcasts and Videos

Diagramming Exaptation

Exaptation is Not a One Step Process for Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Crow on a rock contemplating if creativity can be leanred

Can Creativity Be Taught?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Emergent Futures Lab preview their keynote talk for IRDG

Preview: Keynote Presentation - Creating Radical Breakthrough Innovation

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Human conceptualizing the 6 myths of creativity

Six Myths of Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Stages of a Snowflake

Invention Is Already Part of Reality

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Crow innovation rebel

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

innovation as a metaphor

Mapping, Metaphors and Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Mapping the topology of innovation processes

Mapping Strategies and Innovation Processes

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Drawing of a person surfing a wave

Creativity and Constraints

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

4 stages of innovation process - complexity science enactive cognition Epicycle Feedforward Exaptive Processes

How Does the New Come Into Being?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Crow wishing humans used weather forecasting language

On Constraints, Attractors and Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Examining a brain

Creativity: It was Never in Your Head

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Design Thinking is Anti-Creative

Three Reasons Design Thinking Principals Are Anti-Creative

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

Crow on a billboard at sunset

Where Does Organizational Creativity Come From?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

two people under a tree with tools

Processes are Self Governing

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Two girls being creative

Process Radically Reorients Approaches to Creativity and Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Diagramming the innovation process

What is Innovation? A Process...

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Process

Steps of the innovation process

How to Create Novel, Disruptive Innovations

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Process

Pylling strings of the cats cradle

Things Are More Than Interdependent — They Are Intradependent

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

45 takeaways from 45 Emergent Futures Newsletter volumes

45 Highlights from 45 Innovation & Creativity Newsletters

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

Less is less

We Need Less, Not More

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Models

two people under a tree on a windy day

Creativity Emerges From the Middle

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Iceberg as a metaphor for mental models

Icebergs Don't Model Reality

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity Models

Crow on a billboard telling us to invent problems

Mindset Innovation… It's Time to Move On

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Crow offering a philosophical view on perspective

Creativity Is Not About Ideas

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Innovation is a Process

A New Approach to Creativity - Enactive Cognition

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Salamander jumping off a Lilly pad

When Innovation Happens Worlds Are Made

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Examining problems for innovative outcomes

How to Leave Problems

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Measuring novelty for innovation and creativity

How to Invent Problems

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Comparing Design Thinking to other creativity models

Why Use Models of Creativity That Are Anti-Creative?

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity Models

innovation as an aesthetic activity

Innovation: Sense Making and Aesthetics

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creative Blocking for innovative affordances to emerge

On Creativity, Constraints and Blocking

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Snowflakes self-organizing into a field of creativity

What Does Innovation Look Like Beyond the Ideation Framework?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Western creativity is a greekmyth

The Greeks Did Not Have “Creativity”

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Problems worth solving

Innovation — It’s About Problems

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

What happens before thinking?

What Happens Before Thinking?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Crows talking about Ursula Le Guin quote of uncertainty

Practices for Probing: An Innovation Strategy

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

How to Engage with Emergence

How Do We Effectively Engage With Emergence

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

Sticky notes floating through a street

Design Thinking Is Just the Best Branded Methodology

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity Models

Creativity is a result of emerging systems

Systems are Creative: On Emergence and Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

The authorship of creativity

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

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Proposing Alternative Models of Creativity

Comparing “Primary Gestures” for Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason 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?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Crow reveals other worlds

You Are of a World Where Other Worlds Are Possible

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Two crows unfurling creativity

Creativity Challenges Who We Are

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Practicing creativity

Propositions and Exercises for a New Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

10 Ways to be More Creative

10 Creativity Concepts to Test in 2022

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

22 Tips for Creativity in 2022

22 Ways to be More Creative and Innovative in 2022

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

Time for a New Creativity

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

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Creative exercises for designers and artists

One of Our Favorite Exercises for Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Book on Disruptive Innovation with Bookmark and Sticker

Disruptive Innovation Book Excerpt: from Innovating Emergent Futures

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity and Innovation Books

Unintended possibilities is creativity

Unintentionality is the Story

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Velociraptors discussing creativity tools

The Most Accessible Creativity Tools

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

Creativity vs Ideation

Creativity Eats Ideation for Breakfast

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Tom Morello exploring creativity with his guitar

An Example of Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Cooking eggs has many variables

Creativity: Constraints, Fields and Systems

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Whirlpool in a River

Creativity is Less

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Cats Cradle Game

Creativity Is in the Middle

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

What else can you do with a coffee mug

Creativity Hides Everywhere All Around

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Be Like a Crow and ask what else can something do?

Creativity “And What Else Can It Do?”

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Environments Creativity is the beginning of all creativity

How Can We Be Creative?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Diagram of how snowflakes are formed

Environmental Creativity: How Snowflakes Form

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Reality is Creativity

Reality is Creativity

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

The creativity paradox - seeing what cannot be seen

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

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Where Abstract Thinking Comes From

The New Cannot Be Seen or Thought

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Diagram of the Greek Model of Making and Creativity

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

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Models

If thinking is not in your head - where does it happen?

Thinking Is Not in Your Head

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Comparing business Innovation Models

Are All Innovation Models the Same?

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Models

Changing Developmental Systems Theory to Innovation Manifesto

Creativity Without Brainstorming Ideas

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Creativity is more than ideas

Where Did Your Big Idea Come From?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity Models

Jason Frasca & Iain Kerr winning best overall poster at VentureWell 2018

Emergent Futures Lab Interviewed by NJ Tech Weekly

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

God's divine plan for earth

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

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity Models

Montclair Design Week 2021 - Emergent Futures Lab Innovation workshop

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

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Bob Weir on LSD in the Other One

What’s Your Drug of Choice for Creativity?

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Innovation Process

Harvard Business Publishing email invitation for Design Thinking

Harvard's Got Innovation All Wrong

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Models

Creativity Book: Innovating Emergent Futures

Announcing: New Book on Creativity and Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Workshop at MDW 2021

Innovation Workshop at Montclair Design Week 2021

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Lists of Innovation Rules

79 One Sentence Innovation Tips

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Process

You can't think of ideas

Where Do Ideas Come From?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity & Innovation

Historic Creation Model

The Principles of Design Thinking Prevent Creativity and Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Creativity Models

There are no aha moments in innovation

Aha moments Don't Exist in Innovation

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Jason Frasca Iain Kerr

Creativity & Innovation

Emergent Futures Lab Launches Website

Emergent Futures Lab Launches Website

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Design Approach prototype in Making is Thinking paper

Making is Thinking - How Doing Transforms Innovation

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Journey of innovation

A Guide to the Strategic Innovation Journey

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Models

Process of Design Thinking

Why is Design Thinking so Bad at Radical Innovation?

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Iain Kerr Jason Frasca

Innovation Models