When examining historical innovations like human flight, we discover not a single heroic inventor (the Wright Brothers) but a thicket of simultaneous experiments, debates, and collaborations over multiple time-scales – some successful, others not – that collectively…

For some, it was a bit of a cliffhanger—we left you hanging, wondering what are the key lessons from the larger story of the creative emergence of human flight?…

Creativity, like flight, is not some thing found inside some thing — whether it be the bird or the human. Creativity, like flight, is an emergent process that is the outcome of relations that must be cultivated across many unlike things….…

The site of these experiments has been both the conventional stories of the invention of human flight and the archives of the processes of the inventions of human flight.…

The Invention of Human Flight – A Last Preamble. Last. week in the newsletter. , we began an experimental case study: what can we learn from the invention of human flight about creative processes?…

What if the emergence of human flight is a similar phenomenon?…

Creativity, like flight, is not some thing found inside some thing — whether it be the bird or the human. Creativity, like flight, is an emergent process that is the outcome of relations that must be cultivated across many unlike things….…

And like flight there are an open-end number of ways to participate in this process: you do not need a certain form (say a human form, or even a brain).…

In an effort to do this – over the next two weeks, we want to experiment with an exemplary story of creative changemaking – the story of human flight.…

Consider the evolution of flight in dinosaurs. Flight did not emerge because feathers, wings, or bones were individually designed for flying.…