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ISBN-13: | 9780674057197 |
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Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication date: | 10/31/2010 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d) |
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David Edwards spends his life crossing boundaries. The Lab tells the story of his trailblazing initiatives to cross-pollinate the creative energies of artists and scientists around the world. It is an illuminating and inspiring meditation on the nature of creativity itself, not just in formal labs but in everyday life.
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD, author of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Edwards infects us with his subjects' creativity. When the final chapter turns from vignettes to his utopian laboratoire, we're rooting for it to succeed.
The Lab is a wise and bracing call to arms, a handbook for channeling our creative selves in the early twenty-first century. For anyone hoping to unleash their inner innovator, David Edwards is essential reading
Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slowness and Under Pressure
The Lab exactingly and enjoyably describes the process of building a "funnel shaped" institution devoted to process—the node of a network that ceaselessly promotes innovation by finding the common thread that links artist and scientist when they're truly creative (as in this book).
Jay Cantor, author of On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother: Essays on Art and Society
When artists and scientists come together, cheeks gets rosier, voices go up a few notches, eyes sparkle. They are eager to learn from each other. Just as David Edwards maintains, true innovation can only happen where science and culture intersect, and it is time for this millennial truth to become a pillar of our educational system.
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art