Steve+Dahlberg


 * CS10. Steve Dahlberg ** – //If I Can’t Think:// //Engaging Creative Alternatives for Social Change//

May 28 Saturday 1:30-2:30 PM HM 138

Creating change is an act of the imagination. It requires us to think in new ways. It requires creative alternatives. It requires engagement. We’ll explore the role of creative thinking and creative process in social change – and how we can deliberately develop and activate this capacity in ourselves and in others. Affiliation/Bio: Director, International Centre for Creativity and Imagination; Faculty, “Creativity + Social Change,” University of Connecticut, dahlberg@appliedimagination.org. Steven Dahlberg is the director of the International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, which is dedicated to applying creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations and communities. He teaches "Creativity + Social Change" at the University of Connecticut, and regularly leads professional development workshops about creativity in education, organizations and communities. He's served as an adviser to the Guggenheim, helped toy inventors launch a creativity consulting business, and headed a creativity foundation. He taught an undergraduate course for incarcerated men on creative problem solving, and has taught courses and workshops at Rhode Island College, Yale University, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and many other places. He edits the Applied Imagination blog, co-hosts the Creativity in Play online radio show, wrote the white paper on creativity, arts and aging for Americans for the Arts, and authored the foreword to Education is Everybody's Business. Find more about his work at www.appliedimagination.org.