Creativity

16 Apr TEDxNavesink to Feature a Day of/on Play

Posted at 02:04h in Creativity, Human Development, I Like This, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

I’m pleased to be among one of two dozen presenters at TEDxNavesink: Play— on Saturday May 10th, at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. The all day event will educate and entertain on the many ways that play is a positive force in our lives. Here’s a preview of...

30 Mar Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark

Posted at 15:44h in Creativity, I Like This, Philosophy, What's New 2 Comments

"Before science had the means to explore [the unseen], we had to make do with stories that became enshrined in myth and folklore. Those stories aren’t banished as science advances; they are simply reinvented. Scientists working at the forefront of the invisible will always be confronted with gaps in knowledge,...

09 Mar Who Are We/Who Are We Becoming?

Posted at 02:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments

Earlier this evening I completed a six-day residency period of The International Class of the East Side Institute. It was an intense period of conversation on all manner of psychological, phiosophical, political, cultural and completely mundane matters. The 9 current members of this year's hail from 5 countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands,...

07 Mar New Book Series!

Posted at 03:10h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Publications, What's New, Youth Development 2 Comments

I'm excited to share a new project of mine. I'm series editor for a new collection of books for Palgrave Macmillan on the topic of Play, Performance, Learning and Development. Over the next three years (and maybe beyond) researchers and practitioners will have a multi-disciplinary "home" to publish their work...

25 Feb The Performance Turn in Social Activism

Posted at 14:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_2074" align="aligncenter" width="478"] New Book and Coffee Cup[/caption] I was so pleased to see this new book in the mail yesterday that I took a photo of it. Performance Studies in Motion originated in a 2010 conference at the University of Haifa: RS and PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies....

20 Feb Discover Development—NYC

Posted at 18:07h in Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes, What's New 1 Comment

I'll be playing "Development Tour Guide" once again this coming May 16-18 as I lead another Discover Development NYC weekend. It's a unique small-group experience in seeing and making culture in one of the world's most vibrant cities. Contact Melissa Meyer at mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org if you're interested. Click here for more information. ...

30 Jan The Mystery of Play at TEDx

Posted at 00:07h in Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 2 Comments

Announcing TEDxNavesink PLAY I'm happy to say that I'll be there in Red Bank NJ on May 10 2014. for this unique event on the subject of PLAY. I'll be one of two dozen presenters (list in formation). I titled my talk, "Unveiling the Mystery of How Play Helps Us to Grow at...

22 Jan Seeing the Unseen in High School Theatre

Posted at 20:39h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Publications, What's New 0 Comments

The Unseen Benefits of the Arts in Schools, An Op Ed by Univrsity of Georgia professor Peter Smagornisky. I'm glad to say I've known Peter for many years through our work together in AERA (American Educational Research Association). Peter's co-author is Michelle Thorne. I like how they help us see a...

12 Jan What a thing is language!

Posted at 03:27h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Language, Philosophy, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 7 Comments

Here’s something I’ve been mulling over for a long time (decades!): the “blessing and the curse” that is human language. What an invention! Making sounds together creating meanings, meanings creating and shaping and reshaping perceptions, concepts, beliefs, feelings, relationships, images, imagination… What we have done and continue to do with, and...

04 Jan Improv in Science featured in the prestigious science journal Nature

Posted at 19:52h in Creativity, Education, I Like This, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, What's New 0 Comments

Hats off to Rachel Berstein for writing Communication: Spontaneous Scientists in the January 1, 2014 issue of Nature. Featured in the article along with funny man and improv devotee Alan Alda, is cell biologist Raquel Holmes, who began her business improvscience while a student in the program I run, The International Class....