A campaign to fundraise for the Creative Thinking Research Fund was launched at Saatchi & Saatchi in New York on 9 October 2014. Bob Dylan is the Founding Patron of the Fund and the Creative Thinking Project’s inaugural Creative Laureate.
The University of Auckland’s Creative Thinking Project developed out of a belief that creativity is a fundamental element in our learning and development as human beings.
Creativity is an essential part of human nature. Those aspects of our being that we know so well as children – our imaginations, our sense of play, daydreaming, and the belief in possibilities – are all facets we need to recover and place front and centre in our everyday lives.
This is how we create change – by using creativity to inform and influence and as a prism through which we innovate, develop and shape our inner selves and our external environments.
From funders and policy makers to educators and politicians, we need creativity to be framed as a core value and treasured as the world’s most significant global currency.
The purpose of the international fundraising initiative for the Creative Thinking Research Fund is to support research into creativity and the creative process and to contribute to finding creative solutions to global issues. The fund will bring together philanthropists with scientists, philosophers, educators and artists to form a global community of creative change agents.
Researchers are encouraged to collaborate across disciplines to explore the essence of creativity, to deepen our understanding of the creative process and to prove the value of creativity to our lives. The fund will be open to researchers at the University of Auckland and international collaborators. Those wishing to know more about the application process should register their interest by emailing creativethinking@auckland.ac.nz
Donors interested in research to reveal the power of creativity are encouraged to discuss their vision with the Director of the Creative Thinking Project.
Creativity crosses boundaries and the Creative Thinking Project encourages collaborations with other organisations. Talk to us.
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