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Projects & Initiatives: Cook It UP! Creativity Forums

Cook It UP! is the brainchild of Lynn Book which was launched as a campus and community forum on creativity in early 2006 to kick off the Creativity and Innovation Program initiative. The objective is to stimulate dialog and foster innovative collaborations between artists, scholars, researchers and the general public from divergent disciplines in an uncommon, creative environment. As with many of the initiatives of the Program for Creativity and Innovation, a high value is placed on extended learning opportunities for students with faculty development and public engagement. To date, the Cook It UP! forum has reached over 350 participants and attendees through the course of several nights of 'curious pleasure.'

photo: Cook It UP! forum

SPRING 2006
Feb. 16 “Sourcing Creations: Wrestling Spirits and Making Meaning”
Cindy Gendrich, associate professor of theatre and dance
Dilip Kondepudi, Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry

Feb. 23 “Creating Systems: Discoveries, Strategies and the Good Fortune of Mistakes”
Susan Fahrbach, Reynolds Professor of Biology
Jacqui Carrasco, associate professor of music

Mar. 2 “Creative Originals: the Myth of Genius and the Play of the Imagination”
David Finn, professor of art
Charles Richman, professor of psychology

Mar. 16 “Worlds of Creativity: Culture, Clashes and Inventing the Future”
Mary Dalton, assistant professor of communication
Ellen Miller, assistant professor of anthropology

FALL 2006
Oct. 19 “Identities and Inventions”
Irma Alarcon, assistant professor of Romance Languages
Michelle Gillespie, Kahle Associate Professor of History

Oct. 26 “Bodies, Boundaries and Other Worlds”
Jed Macosko, assistant professor of Physics
Michaelle Browers, assistant professor of Political Science

Nov. 2 “Thinking Actions, Making Change”
Jack Lucido, lecturer in Communication
Stavroula Glezakos, assistant professor of Philosophy
Sylvain Boko, Zachary T. Smith Associate Professor of Economics

 

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Cook It UP! Creativity Forum, February 2006. Students carefully planned both environmental and culinary design concepts and executed for each event.

Innovative environments extend student learning and audience reception as they hear a psychologist and a sculptor speak about the creative process at Cook It UP!

A biophysicist and political scientist converge to address divergent ideas and approaches as students imagine an apocalyptic scene within which to contemplate the human body.