You will enjoy the presentation at the post link - I guarantee! While this talk is not directly related to crime and intelligence analysis in policing, it will give you a foundation for the posts for this week. I am not suggesting that you all quit your jobs and become artists - but we need to bring art to crime and intelligence analysis in order to address the failures of imagination that are our greatest risk.
In this talk:
"Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online."
On a related note, check out my article on creativity and the intelligence community: "Creativity by Choice, Not by Chance: Developing Imagination in the Intelligence Community."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.appliedimagination.org/intelligence.pdf
Here's an excerpt:
Developing one's creativity and imagination is not an untested area. And it is not simply the realm of artists, Hollywood-types and geniuses as was often implied in the Congressional testimony. ... Creativity is present and available in all persons. How that creativity is expressed varies widely, depending on the individual. We all can become trapped by "functional fixedness," which blocks our ability to take risks, think outside of the box and ask new questions. We all get stuck in our "habits of thought." But nearly everyone can learn to tap into more of their imagination to deliberately apply creativity to real-world problems. ... In 1977, creativity researcher Sidney Parnes said that "research has shown that all of us can learn to better understand and appreciate our own creative potential, as well as to nurture it more fully in individuals and groups for whom we have responsibility. This is the exciting challenge of our age – to help more and more people in our society to achieve the 'delicate balance' of productive creativity." This is still our challenge – not just for fighting terrorism but for engaging people in meaningful activity so that they can contribute their creative thinking and efforts to making the world a better place.
Steve Dahlberg
International Centre for Creativity and Imagination
http://www.appliedimagination.org