The Most Creative Look to the Future
Too often our society is quick to label people, to put us in a box as creative or not creative, and that term is not always used as a compliment. Regardless of our profession or where we work, we are all creatives. Our imagination is the most powerful tool we have to build a brighter future.
UN Global Pulse, The United Nations Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab, just published “The Most Creative Look to the Future” that offers learnings and recommendations about how creative practices can help the UN embrace uncertainty and complexity through peace, unity, and collaboration. The creation of the UN itself was a bold creative act borne out of darkness and difficulty, and continues to be a work in progress in a complex and complicated world. This publication is valuable for organizations of any size and type. My favorite take-aways from it:
- Our imaginations give us a way to connect with one another, even those of us who have been previously disconnected.
- Creativity helps us to give voice to emotions and values, and offers us a new way to see others and to be seen by others.
- Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of technology, allowing us to describe and grapple with complex systems to model change and play out a wide variety of scenarios.
- A more peaceful, sustainable, healthier, and happier future begins in the imagination, and we can imagine ourselves and our world into a better state.
- Imagination is a team sport, and becomes richer and more meaningful when we collectively pool our creativity.
The publication concludes with further resources and frameworks that organizations can start using today to embed creative practices into their work and teams. In the new year, I’m excited to share these with my teams as we begin to shape our future work together.
You can download a free PDF of The Most Creative Look to the Future here: https://christaavampato.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/the-most-creative-look-to-the-future.pdf