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World Class Cities Partnership Summit: overview

World Class Cities Partnership Summit: overview

Barcelona. Lisbon. Vancouver. Haifa. Boston. Hamburg. Lyon. Dublin. What do these great cities have in common?  They are members of the World Class Cities Partnership — a group of medium sized (i.e., not uber-urban conurbations like NY or London or Tokyo) keen on sharing best practices in urban sustainability and collaborating between cities and universities […]

Creative Business Thinking:  finale

Creative Business Thinking: finale

It’s all about using constraints to be more creative.  That was one of the final messages that Balder left the students with during the Creative Business Thinking finale. Looking into the idea of constraints and creativity unearths some good back-up research.  For example, from a team at the University of Amsterdam.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21875228 Their work is […]