This week, the CE is celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week. We’re highlighting all kinds of campus events and things to see with our map of Campus Creativity Hotspots. Check out things to do, see, make, and learn! We’re also gettin’ all kinds of creativity and innovation up in the blog. Each day this week, we’ll post about five key facets of creativity and innovation: inspiration, curiosity, passion, dedication, and reflection. Up today: inspiration.
For me, inspiration is a constant process with no beginning or end. I don’t view inspiration as something that can be sought after on a case-by-case basis. In fact, creative projects are spawned because I constantly record and catalog inspiration. My desktop is full of digital sticky notes where I record brief snippets of thoughts. I have folders for different types of project inspiration; everything from zines, to exhibition installations, to fashion. Inside each folder is dozens of images and notes. This type of documentation is key. I can then go through and source visual, thematic, and pedagogical ideas to re-imagine and new, innovative projects of all kinds.
How do you stay inspired? How do you organize the inspirational stimuli you come across on a day-to-day basis?