Conversations
Faculty members at Brown offer an insightful perspective into creativity and its role at Brown. Watch video interviews with faculty and hear their take on the Creative Mind.
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Professor Lipscombe discusses the relationship between creativity and scientific inquiry.
Featured Conversation: Diane Lipscombe – Neuroscience
Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Visual Art at Brown University who teaches painting and printmaking.
Leslie Bostrom – Visual Art
Courses
Sponsoring courses across disciplines, the Creative Mind seeks to bring together unique groups of student and faculty to push the limits of creative thinking. Explore some of the coursework.
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Penguin Physics:These animations were conceived, designed and produced by members of Communicating Science Through Visual Media, a new joint Brown-RISD course that explores the pedagogy of teaching science concepts through video and animation.
VISA 1800T Communicating Science through Visual Media
Forrest Gander is an award winning poet, essayist, translator, and Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Arts at Brown University.
Forrest Gander – Poetry
John Donoghue is a Professor of Neuroscience at Brown and a lead developer of BrainGate, which allows people with paralysis to control a computer with their mind.
John Donoghue – Neuroscience
Events
Connecting the Brown community through creative interactions. Lectures, discussions, exhibitions, screenings and more.
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September 20, 2012
BRASER
6:00 pm
What is a Theory? These animations were conceived, designed and produced by members of Communicating Science Through Visual Media, a new joint Brown-RISD course that explores the pedagogy of teaching science concepts through video and animation.
VISA 1800T Communicating Science through Visual Media
November 11, 2011
Pierre-Alexis Dumas ’91 Lecture
8:00pm
Projects
Take a look into the inspiring and innovative research being done by students and faculty at Brown.
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Brown staff members exhibit their work at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts to the delight of those in attendance.
Brown University Staff Art Exhibition
May 2, 2012
Carrie Mae Weems Lecture
6:30 pm
Students in the Brown IE/MBA workshop explored a simple, yet powerful principle… That innovation is the art of creating value.
Brown/IE MBA Workshop – Material Alchemy
We disassembled the materials at hand- discarded computers, printers, and other equipment headed for the recycling bin. From these raw materials we created kinetic sculptures.
ENGN 0930 DesignStudio: Kinetic Sculpture
If it is sometimes true that what goes up must also come down, then it must also sometimes be true that what comes down must also go up.
VISA1800L Hybrid Art – The Floating Sculpture Project
February 11, 2010
Granoff Center Grand Opening Exhibition
7:00pm - 11:00pm
This workshop explored bricolage as a creative strategy for generating value and recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities.
Brown/IE MBA – Bricolage Workshop
With support from the Brown Science Center, a group of students developed short videos that explain how visual perception works.These microcourses employ visual storytelling techniques to translate concepts from the life sciences into short, compelling videos for a popular audience.
Couresewire: Eye Movement
This workshop explored storytelling as method for catalyzing the creative process.
Brown/IE MBA – Storytelling Workshop
The Generative Construction Toy is an iterative design exercise that develops students’ abilities to frame and reframe their product and process through the cumulative refinements of free play.
The Generative Construction Toy
This workshop — part of A Better World by Design 2012 — explored the power of rapid iteration by reimagining of the classic paper airplane.
Throwing Paper Airplanes at the Moon
Creative thinking is a critical response to the world around us- to our curiosities and interests, to the questions our observations generate, to the ways we frame problems, and to the strategies we develop for translating what we imagine into objects and experiences.
ENGN120D Strategies for Creative Process – Final Projects
As part of Brown’s Center for Vision Research’s 5th year anniversary event, we asked members of the Brown faculty from across disciplines to respond to this question.
Why isn’t there a seam on the color wheel?
Professor Ira Wilson is Chair of the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University.
Ira Wilson – Medicine
Leon Cooper is the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science and the Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. In 1972 Professor Cooper received the Nobel Prize in Physics (with J. Bardeen and J.R. Schrieffer) for his studies on the theory of superconductivity.
Leon Cooper – Physics
The meaning and value of a material - particularly a common, everyday material – opens up and expands when we discover new formal and functional possibilities.
VISA1800L Hybrid Art – The Foil Project
Professor Lipscombe discusses the relationship between creativity and scientific inquiry.
Diane Lipscombe – Neuroscience
The Grand Anything… a structure whose form and function is not predetermined, but rather emerges out of purposeful play
VISA1800L Hybrid Art – The Grand Anything
Professor Kingon discusses creativity in the context of entrepreneurship.
Angus Kingon – Entrepreneurship
Sue Alcock is the Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, and a recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship.
Sue Alcock – Archaeology
Lucas Mason-Brown studies Math and Philosophy of Science at Brown. He is also decoding a book written in a cryptic language by Rhode Island’s founder Roger Williams.
Lucas Mason-Brown – Student
Performance, object, and everyday life.
VISA1800L Hybrid Art – The Food Project
Students in DesignStudio explore various strategies for designing functional objects, with an emphasis on learning through making.
ENGN0930 DesignStudio – Final Projects
Communicating Medical Risk, taught by David Macaulay and Ali Zarrabi in Spring 2012 was a course linking RISD and Brown with the intent to improve visual and health literacy for patients and health care professionals.
VISA1800T Communicating Medical Risk
Barrett Hazeltine is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University.
Barrett Hazeltine – Entrepreneurship
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