Building Platforms for Creativity and Innovation
Pamela Jennings
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014 at 12:00 pm – Lee Liu Alliant Energy Auditorium, Howe Hall
Pamela Jennings has been involved in many groundbreaking projects in information technology and education technology, and has played a critical role in national and international policy implementations for initiatives bridging the arts and technology. She has served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation Computer & Information Science & Engineering, Intelligent Information Systems cluster. She led the CreativeIT program and co-managed the Human Centered Computing, Cyberlearning and Computer Research Infrastructure programs. Previously, she held a joint appointment at Carnegie Mellon University and the School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Prior to CMU, Pamela was the Project Manager and Lead Designer for the IBM alphaWorks.com project.Pamela Jennings received her MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; PhD in Human Centered Systems Design, University of Plymouth, UK; MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, MA in Studio Arts from New York University and BA in Psychology from Oberlin College.
Abstract:
My vision is a world where innovative ideas and solutions that support new ways of co-existing are invented, explored and shared. This is a world that is abundant with new opportunities to integrate the collective opportunities and intelligences of those who have been systematically absent from the discourses of experimentation, discovery and decision making.
Platforms for creativity and innovation are safe spaces to learn, make mistakes, and invent new ways of being. These are the platforms that we - the few and the privileged - have the opportunity to engage. We must become more aware of the enabling factors that influence the ability to participate in the acts of innovation through broader and more diversified participation.
Cosponsored By:
- Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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