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Creating Utopia
From 'Window on Wake Forest', March 2007
For millenia, much of humanity — tormented by strife, pestilence, famine and other woes and fearful of futures that were uncertain at best — has been drawn more toward "what if" than toward "what is." From the Romantics, who yearned to be somewhere long ago and far away, to the futurists of the 20th century, who envisioned changes in the social order more radical than those in technology, idealists have dreamed of utopian societies free of conflict and want. Rarely has that dreaming been more lucid or urgent than today, with the specter of nuclear, economic and environmental apocalypse looming large in the collective consciousness.
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We Came, We Cooked, We Created
From Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts Newsletter, April 2006
Cook It Up was born into existence in large part from the efforts of students in the Creativity and Innovation class that I taught this spring. The idea for the forum sprang from the recognition that creativity comes in many shapes and forms; however, it’s not always easy to identify what forms it takes and what comprises the process itself. In the December E-Newsletter, I wrote about creativity as an intrinsic condition of living, like breathing or eating. Indeed, this idea served as the inspiration for a major project assignment for the Creativity and Innovation class (now a foundation course for the new Minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise).
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