Day 4: KIE Conference (Knowledge, Innovation and Enterprise)

I’m super excited, I just completed presenting to the KIE conference.

…Feels amazing to have presented! I did it. My first conference. Dr. James Ogunleye had some great questions about the 4 C’s of creativity. When the topic of everyday creativity usually comes up, people gravitate towards those who are genius or those who look at creativity in an everyday capacity. I know my project is called everyday creativity - and it seems like it would relate to the one side of the spectrum of creativity that relates to little things and everything. For me, I do not see the distinction, nor do I like the idea that one might judge or analyze and state that an idea that is both novel and useful is mini-c creative or maybe Pro- or Big- C. This dances along the fence of accessibility and inclusion. For example, the fear is that a gatekeeper in the domain who sits in his dusty leather chair next to his fireplace and smoking jacket paging through and deciding what happens to be plain-old-everyday creativity and the ideas that may be worthy of the Nobel prize. Frankly, we all need to realize that creativity is everywhere and for everyone - and once this reality is shared amongst everyone, we will begin to believe that some of these Nobel prize ideas may actually be born out of someone or someplace least expected.