99U | John Maeda: Looking for Superman @99u | Uploaded November 2012 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
About this presentation
Rhode Island School of Design president John Maeda defines the key qualities of standout innovators -- a willingness to struggle, to make mistakes, to live with ambiguity -- and tackles the creative's biggest challenge: How to lead other creatives. Perhaps confronting the status quo, killing bureaucracy, and leading change can be its own art form.
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0:37 creative people, is that a bad word?
2:28 awkwardness
3:20 fortune of misfortune
5:20 "make lots of money"
7:15 how do you lead an institution through a crisis as a creative?
8:05 creative person: we want to be rogue and "the man"
9:55 "all artists yearn to struggle"
11:20 how do you lead creative people?
13:15 anger isn't an emotion I often feel but often field
14:13 creatives know how to role, adapt
14:30 creative people love mistakes
14:50 you don't need to be right, you hope to be right
16:06 you're completely okay with ambiguity
About John Maeda
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to synthesize technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century model for creativity and innovation.
As president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a position he assumed in June, 2008, Maeda champions the vital role artists and designers play in fueling our contemporary creative economy. He sees RISD's emphasis on critical thinking and critical making - on making tangible objects by hand - as increasingly relevant in an overly digital world.
About 99U
The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
About this presentation
Rhode Island School of Design president John Maeda defines the key qualities of standout innovators -- a willingness to struggle, to make mistakes, to live with ambiguity -- and tackles the creative's biggest challenge: How to lead other creatives. Perhaps confronting the status quo, killing bureaucracy, and leading change can be its own art form.
Watch more videos here: 99u.com/videos
0:37 creative people, is that a bad word?
2:28 awkwardness
3:20 fortune of misfortune
5:20 "make lots of money"
7:15 how do you lead an institution through a crisis as a creative?
8:05 creative person: we want to be rogue and "the man"
9:55 "all artists yearn to struggle"
11:20 how do you lead creative people?
13:15 anger isn't an emotion I often feel but often field
14:13 creatives know how to role, adapt
14:30 creative people love mistakes
14:50 you don't need to be right, you hope to be right
16:06 you're completely okay with ambiguity
About John Maeda
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to synthesize technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century model for creativity and innovation.
As president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a position he assumed in June, 2008, Maeda champions the vital role artists and designers play in fueling our contemporary creative economy. He sees RISD's emphasis on critical thinking and critical making - on making tangible objects by hand - as increasingly relevant in an overly digital world.
About 99U
The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
