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As president of Rhode Island School of Design Roger Mandle often asked himself can one be an administrator and an artist at the same time. As he discusses the art of innovation Roger shares that RISD has become his medium and students his audience.
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Liz Lerman was determined to memorialize her mother's passing in dance, but quickly found that there were no elderly dancers to portray the characters. That's when she started teaching dance in a senior home and ultimately led to her founding of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
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Jim Lavoie, CEO of Rite Solutions insists that there is no greater killer of innovation than getting management involved.
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Josh Koppel developed a product called TuneBook to display album art in iTunes, only to have it stop working when iTunes 7 was released. Josh discuses how this set back was the catalyst to create a new product and a new method of distribution, the ipod.
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Author Frans Johansson discusses the premise behind his bestselling book "The Medici Effect". He believes that all new ideas are a combination of existing ideas. The more random ideas people and teams bring together the more possible combinations for innovation are produced.
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"Don't be a star, be a galaxy." Peter Gloor talks about his work mapping social networks by creating visualizations of the seemingly intangible relationships between people, ideas and organizations.
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How do you turn thoughts into action? Neuroscientist John Donoghue's pioneering work has decoded brain waves and is helping people restore lost functions.
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Cars, televisions, iPods and other modern technology have put our society into social isolation. Curt Columbus believes in putting the audience back into the center of theatre in a "democratic space".
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"Your choices make choices." Rick Borovoy, co-founder and CTO of nTag Interactive explains that technology needs a singular idea and solid core to support the needs of the greater community.
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What do you do when you’re told your child will never graduate from high school? Randy Antik talks about finding the one doctor who could help and helping that doctor scale his approach to reach millions of kids a year.
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Hugh Herr had both legs amputated below the knee after a mountain climbing accident. When a doctor told him he would never climb again, Hugh set to work building artificial legs and feet to accomplish the task.
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Alice Wilder is passionate about listening. As the former head of R&D for kid's show Blue's Clues she has learned the importance of listening and watching children. Kids want to be heard and to express themselves. As an advocate for education she challenges communities to watch children learn and to witness first hand what sparks their attention.
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As a musician Tim Westergren realized that we all have a genome in our head that determines the music that we love. Tim went about figuring out how to describe and catalog music through the Music Genome Project and ultimately created Pandora.com to create play lists of music for people based on their tastes.
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Bill Tsiaras is one of the few physicians in the country board certified in both ophthalmology and internal medicine. His ability to take a more holistic approach to medicine is helping him tackle diseases such as macular degeneration.
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Alexander Tsiaras shows his pioneering work in anatomical visualization. Alexander sees himself as a storyteller for the human body working with artists and technologists.
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A proponent of the "empathetic economy" Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO is changing the world of product design. By using post-disciplinary teams, teams that go beyond a single discipline, IDEO finds new inspiration in its collaborative work.
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Artist Michael Singer eloquently describes his work of rethinking infrastructures to create spaces that serve more than one purpose. Michael shows one of his projects, a power plant that is using its roof and vertical spaces for urban agriculture.
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There is nothing greater than using your employees' passion to create new ideas. As an executive at Sirius Satellite Radio Mary Pat witnessed her employees' passion of music translate into innovations for the company.
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How do you help a creative team that does not know each other learn to work together and produce the next great idea? Ivy Ross shares her experiences of starting a new job at Old Navy and rapidly getting the team up to speed by fostering connections, relationships and trust.
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As nearby mill buildings were turned into a shopping center, Clay Rockefeller and his partners purchased a mill and pursued an alternative model for artist live/work space with a community-centered, affordable and sustainable approach.
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Former Seinfeld writer Andy Robin delivers a funny take on the importance of collaboration (including caffeine and chocolate) in the creative process.