By Valerie van Mulukom — 2018
Imagination is what propels us forward as a species—it expands our worlds and brings us new ideas, inventions and discoveries.
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Despite our growing awareness of mental health conditions, the relationship between creativity and mental illness is often misunderstood. Dr.
Kanye talks about recording his latest albums, mental health, being bipolar, and wanting everyone to be able to express themselves without fear of judgment.
What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia.
Dancer and communicator Diana Ocholla describes the process behind "Rise", a performance honoring and making space for women and responding to gender-based violence in South Africa. The performance was held in 2019 in Muizenberg in Cape Town, South Africa as a part of Project Ripple.
A short documentary discussing how art forms within activism can dismantle hate and create changes in the society we live in.
New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world.
Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” talks about the role of religion in the Dominican Republic and the political power of literature.
This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith.
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? And, what makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to life. Lesson by Jane Hirshfield, animation by Ben Pearce
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. “Growing up makes us less creative. Therefore we have to re-learn creativity, and luckily there are multiple ways to do so,” says Balder Onarheim, PhD.