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Ronald Paredes

Rethinking Creativity! Look Out AI; We’re Not Done Evolving Yet

In the summer of 2019, I attended a discussion panel at Shanghai Jiaotong University’s School of Design. The subject: artificial intelligence (AI) and its future implementations in creative industries. Among the presenters were a Greek Computer Sciences Professor conducting...

Brain Gymnastics; Helping Our Creative Endeavours

We are all well aware of the benefits of maintaining general good health. However, there is a very specific area of our health that we take for granted. Mental health is never something we think of as our responsibility. When...

Careful! Your Brain Might be Playing Tricks on You

his has been my second year teaching an elective class to high school students, the subject of the class is “Creativity and Concept Creation”. My role in the classroom is more of a coach, a facilitator. ...

How Do You Define Success?

Gathering with old classmates at school reunions is without a doubt a very exciting experience, bringing back memories of our years as students, reviving old friendships and the curiosity produced by seeing how people have aged and most importantly,...

Learning to ̶F̶l̶y̶ Fail

It was 17 December, 1903, when a controlled and powered flying machine, built by the Wright brothers, called the “Wright Flyer 1”, on its third attempt of the day, took off, achieving a maximum distance and altitude of approximately...

Not The Creative Type? Think Again!

One of our most primordial needs as humans is to understand our environment so we can adapt to it or make it adapt to us. We observe, analyze, dissect, measure, qualify and quantify in an effort...

Café Elevated to Art

Used as we are in China to seeing fashions arrive from abroad to devour our attention, influencing and modifying our ways of living, it was not unexpected to witness the fascination for coffee and cafés turn from just a...

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