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In what ways might architecture/design encourage Productive Thinking?

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Peter Lloyd commented on Tim Hurson's video 'Instant DUI'April 30

Absolutely hilarious! As long as you can isolate the hilarity of the situation in your mind and separate it from your sense of outrage at drunk driving. As silly as it seems to draw a creativity principal from this, I think there's a lesson here. ...

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Peter Lloyd replied to Garth's discussion 'In what ways might architecture/design encourage Productive Thinking?'April 29

Garth, I've given this some thought and have written about it: Creative Space. Not an exciting article but comprehensive, I think. It's also never finished. I keep updating it. So I'm looking forward to what this discussion generates. Peter

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About Me:: I'm Peter Lloyd--writer, songwriter, ghostwriter. Many of my songs have been recorded for your listening pleasure at Songs by Peter Lloyd and Friends. Song of interest to creative people at work include: Ahdoolak Fish Shuffle, Cash Flow Blues, Don't Fence Me In, Make Some Money, Skink the Lizard, Thomas Edison Blues, and Your Brain. I've performed some of them in live Peter Lloyd Presents performances, including Creative Animal Safaris.

With co-author Steve Grossman I created Animal Crackers, the creative-problem-solving process for tough business problems. I'm also the ghostwriter of Marco Marsan's The Lion's Way and Think Naked: Childlike brilliance in the rough adult world.

I write Right Brain Workouts for the IdeaConnection and features for goCreate.com, including Wild Ideas radio vignettes, the Creativity Timeline, Head Shed, and QuotAmaze.

I developed the collaborative, online, idea-generating process called Brainline. BrandStorm, a division of Northlich, one of the leading marketing communications firms in the United States, currently uses Brainline under the name IdeaSpring.

In most of my real jobs I've worked as an advertising writer or creative director with big and small ad agencies, including a run as Innovation Activist at BrandStorm. During more than 20 years in the advertising agency business, I've developed campaigns for national advertisers and won coveted creative advertising awards.

But enough about me. Tell me about you!

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Tired of your best ideas nose-diving in the trash can? Here are some words of encouragement.

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Posted on September 24, 2008 at 12:05pm —

Save Quiet Cars

Blind Pedestrians Say Quiet Hybrids Pose Safety Threat

Some advocates for the blind want to require manufacturers of hybrids to set minimum sound standards for new cars and trucks, arguing that blind pedestrians can't hear them.

I couldn't agree more. Silent cars are dangerous, not only for people who can't see but for cyclists and all pedestrians, especially childr… Continue

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What I learned from the outhouse

Here's some potty talk but not without some redeeming merit. Actually there's probably more merit than merde.

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Here's Some Old Advice

Yesterday I posted "Old Creative Advice" on IdeaConnection. Doing so prompted me to make a wish.

Many, many years ago, in a faraway land called CompuServe (which I was shocked to learn still exists), Franca Leeson, Tim Hurson, Hal Portner, my daughter Caitlin, and a crew of crazy creatives hobnobbed at 300 baud or slightely faster in the new frontier of pre-internet, dial-up, online comm… Continue

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Let Your People Go!

In honor of Indepnedence Day, I've posted "Handcuffing Creativity" on IdeaConnection.

It has always frustrated me the way some managers stifle their greatest source of creativity. I've trained the stifle relfex out of corporate management groups. I've pumped up their rank and file with innovative fire. I've sung to them and sent them all home with the creative spirit shining in their eyes, only to learn that they lose their self-made relig… Continue

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At 11:54am on November 5, 2008, Mark_Abrahams said…: Time for a bit of a rest.

Job done!

See you later

M.

At 6:32am on November 2, 2008, Mark_Abrahams said…: Peter,
Yet more clarification.

I've just given myself a quick geography lesson.

OK, so now I know that Newport Kentucky is joined to Cincinnati, Ohio by a bridge and that Newport is part of greater Cincinnati. You learn something everyday (if you try).

On the basis that you do (after all that) have Cincinnati links, see this link, also for interest: http://www.healthfoundation.org/grants/organizations/cchmc.html

I assume you already know about these grants but I didn't.
Any possibilities here?

If I need correcting on any point please feel free.

Take Care
Mark

At 6:10am on November 2, 2008, Mark_Abrahams said…: Clarification (ironing out any confusion I may have caused):

Why Cincinnati?

Peter, I've just noticed that you are based in Newport, Kentucky.
Somehow, I've got it into my mind that you had Cincinnati connections. I must have confused you with someone else with whom I've been communicating on these or allied topics.

This is sent just in case you think, OK, but what's he going on about Cincinnati for.

Cheers
Mark

At 5:54am on November 2, 2008, Mark_Abrahams said…: Hey Peter,
Having not only brainstormed but also dumped an unedited stack on you via the 'Leg to Stand On' Forum, I'm just dropping in on you to share a couple of extra points. Please stay with me. You will recognise that, via our exchanges, I am using the 'sounding board approach'. This approach can be tedious and too complicated for many people (including me, if I'm on the receiving end) so I apologise for such mass communication. I hope that such an approach is regarded as better than nothing at all.

Here are the two points:

1. Project Connections
see: Project Search http://www.ncset.org/publications/essentialtools/ownwords/part9.asp
Assuming you already know about NCSET and other great stuff going on in Cincinnati, I am merely rounding the loop by telling you that I also know of this project. This is the project I had heard about (from my wife) and it links nicely into what you and your colleagues are doing with Project Access and the Inclusivity Network and across the 'health' and 'education' sectors.
Not only are we aware of this project but one of wife's colleagues has visited Cincinnati to check out how this project works.
I could provide contact details if all concerned agree.
This colleague manages a programme which supports kids with Aspergers and ADHD etc. I believe that, accordingly, my wife's employer (City College Norwich, Norfolk, UK) has established a working link with the Cincinnati project and, I hope, is building a similar project here.

Because this is the project that was in the back of my mind and because I have aimed to join forces with you as much as I am able concerning Project Access, I have contacted you outside of the Forum. This is not, strictly speaking, to do with the 'Leg to Stand On' forum.

2. The Potential for Development
As an individual who is probably approaching a 2009/10 career crossroad (though there's a ways to go yet) I am contemplating and planning a future which could run in tandem with some of the work you do or are involved with. Ethically and practically, it would have to be complimentary and not in direct competition.
Via the Hub as a vehicle I have just splurged a stack of thinking (to Ross Jacobs, concerning Twitter - but going well beyond that topic) which sort of links into this potential.
The purpose of my posting was related to better managed COMMUNICATION. I noted a previous thinking incarnation of mine which was to develop a 'mothership' website.
Without going into the detail, it has become apparent to me that there are any number of good sites that do part of what I conceptualised (e.g. Brandstorm.biz).
However, my concept went a bit further, requiring an active element which went out and got hold of relevant and specialised data and ideas.
It could have been a not-for-profit set-up but would properly recognise the value (in all senses of the word) of intellectual property.
I was, of course, targeting the development of a website that started in my own professional field, so that I knew exactly what I was doing and why.
My larger (later) concept was for a people-centred business that cornered the market for the best of creative, critical and productive modelling.
As with all things creative, it's not so much about having the ideals but its about what we do with them when we have them worked out.
I aimed to start small, fix a few local problems and organically develop my 'mothership website' as far as it could go, charged with the best managed data.
In the event, observing things as an employee, my organisation just talked but didn't deliver innovation. Moreso, it blocked the potential as a result of self-interested, protective but ill-informed management barriers, lacking vision and planning. Or it simply wasn't the time. Its always easy to criticise. The problem is that my employer is about as complicated, unwieldy and yet vital as it is possible to create. It is apparently cash-strapped but, in reality, spends and wastes huge sums. It is renowned for this! Instead of talking the talk and walking the walk people like me are walking - in the opposite direction (to escape dire workplace scenarios) but only if we can afford not to put up and shut up. Still, at least we don't get physically beaten or worse, as in the Congo - what horror!!

As with all my postings, the chattering can be refined into what I was actually trying to say.
I need an editor or the time to edit.
Basically, that sort of sums up my second point. i.e. I believe that the right website managed by the right people can receive a lot of 'chattering' as well as finished articles and manage and file and store the data, like a library, to enable retrieval and reuse.
It could even result in us fragile human-beings capturing information before we fall off the mortal coil (or get so old and frustrated by failure or foiled by our 'enemies' that we give up trying) to inform the next generation so that they can avoid making the same mistakes over again and again and again and....

Intrinsically, I want a simple website that allows us to talk mostly of positive outcomes.
Instead of forever discussing how negative things are we need a platform from which we show how things are best done, illustrating how best we can deliver solutions.

Cheers
Mark

At 3:53pm on October 3, 2008, Gary said…: I think they are the bony part of your ankles.

At 2:24pm on October 3, 2008, Gary said…: Yes, I will be your friend. Oh what fun it is to be your friend!

At 4:10pm on September 10, 2008, heravamp said…: thats funny! made me laugh thanks needed it!! had a very long day. i would love to have a shirt that really says that !

At 5:24am on September 7, 2008, Stein X Leikanger said…: Hi Peter, thanks for the invitation to join The Hub!
Have been splitting my life between consulting for various international brands and working on personal projects - the first have been financially rewarding, and the latter have been enjoyably frustrating.

I look forward to participating here.

At 8:13pm on September 3, 2008, Tracy Koehler said…: Hi, Peter.

Excellent choice in going mouse-free!
Laptops do open up new worlds, don't they? I'll probably go there and never return by the end of this year. The quality is certainly worth the switch.

Ah, Google. One of my FAVORITE companies and subjects in the world! Or, as I jokingly put it to my friends: "If you can't find it on Google, it doesn't exist!"
Between Microsoft and Google? Google is my favorite. On every level. (See? Gates hasn't corrupted me as much as you might think!)
By the way, I haven't switched to Google Chrome...but I'm sure I will within the next week or two.
To that end, would you mind giving me an update -- say, Monday -- as to your experiences with it? I'd love to hear your assessment of it.

--Tracy

At 1:02pm on September 3, 2008, Tracy Koehler said…: Hi, Peter.

Welcome back!

Naw, you don't owe me a response to anything. Last we spoke, we were just talking about the usual stuff. Which, for us, could have been anything!
Ooo, I got a new keyboard. There's some news!
It's a Microsoft keyboard. Thus far, I like it. My previous keyboard had to go. One, it stopped responding when I was in the middle of a business e-mail. Two, it had a "power" button that would turn off the computer when pressed. Fine, in and of itself, but the damned feature couldn't be switched off, and I can't tell you how many times my hand bumped it during the four-month lifespan of the keyboard. Noooot cooool. (Several days ago Hellen was hugging me whilst I was typing a comment on The Hub; she then whipped around and pressed the evil button... Noooot coool.)
So hey, do you have a favorite brand/type of keyboard?

--Tracy