universitas – Creative Proximity

November 4, 2010 · 9 comments

David Staley, a professor at The Ohio State University discusses innovation at TEDxColumbus. He is suggesting a space and place for creatives and innovators called universitas. The main purpose is to provide an opportunity for Creative Proximity – bridging domains and borrowing ideas from each. Check out the presentation below.

If you want to get involved with universitas in Columbus, Ohio join us on November 17 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at Consider Biking HQ, 4041 N. High St. Suite 201.

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  • http://www.onewhiteface.com Hilary Corna

    It was brilliant indeed! Here’s a post where I recapped the discussion topic for anyone that couldn’t make it! Hope you are well Jim and Merry Christmas!

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  • Anonymous

    Yes there was a first meeting with about forty in attendance and a second one is scheduled for December 15. The group is working on a number of connection points. A facebook page has been created, and a few twitter lists for those on twitter to connect. The hashtag #universitas has been used but there may be variations. I think there is a LinedIn group in the works. It’s a bit loosey-goosey at the start. David Staley is the de-facto leader of the group but I’ll try to keep info flowing here as well.

    The facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/Columbus-Universitas/146507948730855

  • Info

    Did anything happen with this? These ideas are great but I couldn’t attend the meeting and now it seems that there is no way to get connected into what you are doing. If you don’t put up a website and communicate the progress so far, you are leaving out a huge chunk of people, basically the entire city who couldn’t make it to that one meeting.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty sure it will be Brilliant!

  • Columbus Universitas

    What if we connected all of the city’s creatives and innovators? What happens if we mash-up a philosopher and a software engineer? What new ideas are born when we bring together an executive chef and a medical doctor? An artist and a scientist? I don’t know what the results would be, but they could be potentially combustible. I would like to see the City develop an environment that incubates and grows creativity and innovation, and I hope that Universitas provides that environment.

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