Creativity

Education

BMX teaches a valuable lesson: Success requires hard work and failure

BMX bike riding goes beyond physical fitness; enhancing mental health, social connectedness and personal growth

Business & Economics

Being creative can make you more popular at work

Creativity, especially when combined with demographic difference, helps build a well-connected workforce

Business & Economics

Can ethical leaders make teams more creative?

Research suggests that ethical leaders provide their teams with emotional confidence that helps to foster creativity

Arts & Culture

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

There’s no easy answer to writing great plays but part of the magic comes from empathy, experience and all that is wondrous and strange

Business & Economics

Every Sherlock needs a Watson (or two)

Creatives often need colleagues to be catalysts, but how can organisations identify and foster these catalysts – and can too much become cataclysmic?

Arts & Culture

The arts and Australia’s mental wellbeing

As we all recover from long COVID-19 lockdowns, the creative arts can support our mental health – but we need ongoing and joined up research to better understand its impact

Arts & Culture

The difficulty with measuring creativity

How do you go about measuring the multifaceted and unique human quality that is creativity without killing it completely? New research aims to do just that

Arts & Culture

The something in nothing

People have been suspicious of ‘nothing’ going back all the way to the mathematical idea of “zero.” Yet there is real value in “nothing” and we need to appreciate it more.

Arts & Culture

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Book extract

Has Hollywood run out of original ideas?

With remakes of Mulan, Dune, The Witches and The Invisible Man all due out this year, a new book answers the big question: what justifies a remake?

Business & Economics

The (good) F-word

There is both beauty and necessity in that other F-word – FAILURE – and a need to make it a part of our innovation conversation