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Business breakfast talk on creativity and motivation
Gareth Loudon gave a business breakfast talk, organised by Leadership and Management Wales, to business leaders in South Wales highlighting the link between principles of creativity and principles of intrinsic motivation.
Creativity workshop for Public Sector employees
Gareth Loudon ran a half-day creativity workshop for Public Sector employees in South Wales as part of the Leadership for Collaboration Programme run by the Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre based at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Creativity Session with the Urbanists
Gareth Loudon ran a session with the an urban planning company called the urbanists on how to integrate key principles of creativity and innovation inside the organisation.
Talk at the North East London NHS innovation conference
Gareth Loudon gave a talk at the North East London NHS Foundation Trust annual conference on the 9th February. The conference focused on driving forward the organisation’s innovation and transformation programme. and was attended by over 200 staff including clinicians, support workers and service managers.
Innovation Workshop at 20 Twenty Leadership Programme
Gareth Loudon recently ran a half-day innovation workshop for business leaders in South Wales as part of the 20 Twenty Leadership Programme run by the Cardiff School of Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly UWIC). Gareth presented the latest research findings on the relationship between movement, play and creativity. The workshop also showed how to [...]
Conference Poster on Divergent Thinking
We recently presented our conference poster entitled ‘Correlation between Coherent Heart Rate Variability and Divergent Thinking’ at the Creativity and Cognition 2011 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia from 2nd-6th November. ABSTRACT: In this paper, a new quantitative method is proposed for measuring the unconscious mind in the incubation stage of the creative process. The method uses [...]
Conference Poster on Play, Prototyping and Creativity
We recently presented our conference poster entitled ‘The Relationship Between Play, Prototyping and Creativity’ at DESIRE ’11, the Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on 19-21 October 2011. ABSTRACT Prototyping has been used extensively in new product development to help designers try out and test new ideas. However [...]
Talk at Cardiff Design Festival
Gareth Loudon recently gave a talk at the PlayARK seminar day, that was part of the Cardiff Design Festival on ‘The Importance of Play for Creativity and Learning’. Photo by Jorge Lizalde You can see some more images from the event below: Games Festival-PlayARK, Sept 2011 from Jorge Lizalde on Vimeo.