PUBLICATION
CONCEPTS
ROBINSON’‘’ ’S BOOK
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THE E LE M E N T
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i get it
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i love it i want it where is it 12
the zone
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the tribe
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IN TE LLIGE N C E
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three brains
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four types of intelligence features of intelligence
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B AR R IE R S
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old scho ol transformations
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common sense personal barriers social barriers cultural barriers
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C R E ATIVE P R OCE S S
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creativity and imagination the process finding your medium
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creative thinking and logical thinking
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R E AC HIN G THE E LE M E NT
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attitude training
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mentor money
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SIR KEN ROBINSON
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i’ve lost track of the numbers of people i’ve met who have no real
sense of what their individual talents and passions are.
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this publication is a personal interpretation of the concepts described by Sir Ken Robinson in his book “the element: how finding your passion changes everything”. these concepts have been chosen to form a path from finding the element to reaching the element, as you can see it on the poster included in this publication. the element “describes the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.” (Robinson, p. xiii) the aim of the book “is to offer a richer vision of human ability and creativity and of the benefits to us all of connecting properly with our individual talents and passions.” (Robinson, p. xiii) we are organic and dynamic beings. we are not machines. the element helps you finding out what you are able to do and who you are. But it has also wider implications about how to found and run schools, businesses, communities and institutions.
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INTRO— DUCTION
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S U C C E SS F U L P E RS O N
A
discovering
B
reaching
THE ELE— MENT
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what is it
i get it
i love it
i want it
where is it
it is what makes you truly happy; you love to do; you’re good at; goes alongside your identity, purpose and well-being.
i discover what i can do. we don’t know who we can be until we know what we can do. i have APTITUDES.
i need to take pleasure while doing it. it is my PASSION.
i have to be perseverant, to have selfbelief, to be optimistic and to know how to deal with ambitions and frustrations.
i have to see the opportunities by having the right ATTITUDE towards these, and i need SUPPORT from others and/or a mentor.
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SIR KEN ROBINSON
if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with something
original.
THE ELEMENT
T H E ZO N E
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all about it,
i have to be perseverant, to have self-belief, to be optimistic and to know how to deal with ambitions and frustrations.
validation
inspiration
THE TRIBE
alchemy of synergy
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it is composed with the people who are commited to the thing they feel they are born to do. it gives you validation to each other about doing it, inspiration which makes you explore your limits and go further/ deeper.
you can see the alchemy of synergy as well which is the power of creative energies, working together will do more than individually. As intelligence (cfr p.), a creative team is diverse, dynamic and distinct.
INTELLI— GENCE
brain
second
THREE BRAINS we don’t only think, we feel.
connected and independent from each other
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heart
first
guts
find an original solution when dealing with a new situation
get along with others
creative intelligence
social intelligence
F OUR T YP ES OF INTELLIGENCE
practical intelligence
emotional intelligence
solving problems and challenges of everyday life
get along with yourself
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T H R E E F E AT U R E S O F I N T E L L I G E N C E
diversity
the different ways to express yourself.
dynamism
it never stops growing by making new connections.
distinction
each person is different.
W ILLIAM JAMES
if you change your mind, you can change your life.
BAR— RIERS
we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. SI R KEN ROBI NSON
OLD SCHOOL school works like a factory from the Industrial Revolution in order to meet economic interests.
hierarchy of subjects the focus is on math, science and languages. heart, body and senses are forget about. so points of view, intelligence and capacity are narrowed.
sparkling imagination, fertile mind, willingness to take risk with what they think
stiffed individual talents and abilities, killed motivation
logic and critical reasoning the education system reason in a way that needs to prove everything that is taught. to help it, they assess and select people thanks to standardised tests. so they promote “one-sizefits-all� system because only one type of intelligence is tested and measured.
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T R A N S F O R M AT I O N S P R O P OS E D
education
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pedagogy
curriculum assessment
customise education
discover individual talents
reduce assessment and rise pedagogy
psychological
P E RS O N A L BA R R I E RS
= yourself
personal temperament
you need self-belief and determination
physical physical handicap to do what you love
S O C I A L B A R R I E RS personal temperament
there is pressure to conform to standards and expectations
parents
peers
fear of disapproval
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accomplishment and security
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C U LT U R A L BA R R I E RS
culture is the values and the forms of behaviour that characterise different social groups.
COMMON SENSE
to take things for granted, creativity and innovation are killed. we need to challenge our abilities and otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abilities.
it influences what we see of the world and what we think of what we see.
CREA— TIVE PRO— CESS
world perception visit the past,contemplate the present and anticipate the future. hypothetise, speculate and suppose. bringing to our mind things that are not present to our mind.
REALIT Y
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I M AG I N AT I O N application of
INTELLIGENCE
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C R E AT I V I T Y valuable original ideas
P R O C E SS
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perspective
frustrations, problems and dead ends
generating ideas developping ideas interaction between generating and developping using one or more media* realisation dynamics of intelligence
*find your medium you can excel with a medium and suck with another. thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a proof of the diversity of intelligence. some people think they are not creative, maybe because they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found their medium yet. but they definitely are.
LO G I C A L T H I N K I N G
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C R E AT I V E T H I N K I N G
reasoning
orientation
conventions
analogies
evaluate
diverge
rules
left brain
right brain
metaphors
mathematics
perception
language
recognition
P H Y S I C A L P R O C E SS E S
feelings & percetion 29
intuitions
skilled coordinations between body and mind relationships
= holistic ensemble
REACHING THE ELEMENT
AT T I T U D E
towards ourselves preconceptions sense of mission towards events in your life perseverance ability to look at and to reframe a situation that fails to go according to plan and to turn it into something special
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TRAINING
create opportunities
creativity
intelligence
making new connections the mind does not stop growing, intelligence and creativity can be trained and developped at any age.
MENTOR
recognition
encouragment
of our skills and our specific capacities
on our skills and what we can improve
facilitating
stretching
giving advice and teaching techniques
self-reliance, to make us go further
learning from our mistakes helping us recovering
MONEY
making a living
making a life
fulfillment
sometimes, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earn a living doing what you love. so you have to create time and space for the element to reach this balance.
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we need to evolve a new appreciation of the importance of nurturing human talent SIR KEN ROBINSON
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[which] expresses itself differently in every individual
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AFTER — WORD “ if we discover the element in ourselves and encourage others to find theirs, the opportunities for growth are infinite. (...) this is not a new view. it’s an ancient view of the need and fulfillment in our lives and for synergies with the lives and aspirations of other people. (...) to make the best of our time together on this small and crowded planet, we have to develop conciously and rigorously - ours powers of imagination and creativity within different framework of human purpose.”
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C O LO P H O N
typefaces
Futura Book Futura ICG Baskerville
paper
Sugar paper white 140gsm
design
julie canon
binding
perfect binding
digital at LCC