Recommended Material Help

Supplemental (recommended but not required) material related to topics discussed

throughout the course. Below you will find links to all material covered by the 3 quizzes.

Supplemental: Books

Johnson, Steven. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Penguin, 2010.
[ Portions of this book and video of the author will be included with this course, but we would
recommend reading the entire book as part of your learning about creativity. ]

Lehrer, Jonah. Imagine: How Creativity Works. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Berger, Warren. CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People: Inside the World of Design
Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovation. Penguin, 2010.
[ Addresses the concept of design thinking and is a peripheral topic to the course. ]

Pink, Daniel H. (2006) A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future.
Pink, Daniel. H. (2011). Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. Penguin.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2008). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. Harper.

Supplemental: Articles

Amabile, Teresa. How to Kill Creativity. Harvard Business Review, 1998.

Dippo, C. & Kudrowitz, B. 2013 Evaluating the Alternative Uses Test of Creativity NCUR Proceedings
[research into going past 10 ideas leading to originality
Kaufman, Scott Barry. Openness to Experience and Creative Achievement. Scientific American,
November 25, 2013.
Pappano, Laura. Learning to Think Outside the Box. New York Times, February 5, 2014.
Wikipedia definitions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_motivation#Intrinsic_and_extrinsic_motivation
To Design is to Understand Uncertainty , Core77 (week 6)
What the Future of Fish Can Teach Us About Designing Systems Core77 (week 6)
Can Playing With Lego Make You More Creative? Fast Company/Lego Foundation (week 4)
Florida, Richard. Cities Are the Fonts of Our Creativity, New York Times, September 15, 2013.

Links to quiz material:

Newsweek article : The Creativity Crisis PDF Version

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson: Introduction (Reef, City, Web) (from
Amazon) Johnson reading in PDF form

Videos:
Steven Johnson Video RSA
Steven Johnson Coffee House TED Talk Liquid Networks
Liquid Networks

Additional links from "Creativity Tools Page"

https://openideo.com/ (week 6)
Daniel Pink: Creativity and Motivation TED Talk (week 6)
The Really Big Questions Podcast: Giving (week 6)

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