Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

by David Edwards

Third, specialized environments or “culture labs” are being set up for grassroots creating that share deep commonalities with those that appear in my stories of towering creators today. These culture labs help lifelong creators learn and retain the “intuitive and deductive,” “imaginative and analytical,” “art and science” capacities of the da Vincis of our era. By pursuing the third way of creating, deeply committed artists, scientists, chefs, entrepreneurs, designers, and others hone emotive and cognitive states that promote frontier survival. These states are precisely those that grassroots creator communities are beginning to teach in short-term maker environments around the world.