Where
Heron Arts 7 Heron Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
When
March 6, 2024
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
March 3, 2024 • Posted by Design Bay Area
Part of the Blumline Community Series x Resonance in Light collection
The composition of creativity is the theme of the evening’s experience and workshop at the Inner Vision Pop-Up R&D Learning Laboratory in the Resonance in Light exhibition. With the acceleration of artificial intelligence, creativity, purpose, and career trajectories seem in imminent danger. What wisdom can the midcentury personality study on creativity with luminaries in architecture and the arts offer us as we navigate new territories and new futures? To what degree is creativity composed rather than improvised? How can we recompose a vision for the road ahead, and build stronger practices and rituals to fortify it?
ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE
Program Length: 2.5 hours. Please join us at 6:30 so you have enough time to enjoy the event and exhibition!
Interactivity Level: High, but relaxed. We will be listening, writing, designing, moving, sharing, and observing. Part lecture, conversation, experience, and interactive workshop.
Intended Audience: Curious, creative people—Intended Audience: Curious, creative people—developing new futures for yourself, companies, ventures, or projects
WHAT WE’LL BE DOING
This evening, we’ll learn from guest speaker, Pierluigi Serraino. Pierluigi is a practicing architect, author, and design agitator, who will join us for a conversation on his research and book, The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Personality Study (Monacelli Press, 2016). In it, he examines Donald MacKinnon’s midcentury personality study on creativity with luminaries in architecture and the arts, like Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson.
We will explore the themes of ritual, composition, and timing.
“Improvisation is making music instantaneously without planning. Composition is constructing music. In improvisation you can’t change your mind; in composition you can.” – Pauline Oliveiros
See you there! Hosted by Blumline.
PEOPLE
Natasha Margot Blum
Natasha is a social scientist, designer, storyteller, teacher, problem-solver, inventor, and translator bridging the cultures of business, technology, design, and social impact. She leads Blumline, uniting an interdisciplinary collective of wildly talented people, where she solves problems, guides leaders and their organizations, and designs smarter, kinder, wiser futures. She is a practitioner and teacher of classical yoga, meditation, and kriya.
GUEST: Pierluigi Serraino
Pierluigi is a practicing architect, author, and design agitator, who will join us for a conversation on his research and book, The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Personality Study (Monacelli Press, 2016). In it, he examines Donald MacKinnon’s midcentury personality study on creativity with luminaries in architecture and the arts. Pierluigi’s projects and writings have been published in journals such as Architectural Record, A+U (Japan), and The Architectural Review (UK). Among his books Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, 2000), and Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture (Phaidon, 2019)
GUEST: Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Jeffrey is a visual and performing artist, musician, composer, facilitator, and teacher of improvisation, music theory, and ritual sound. For the past decade, he has emceed the semiannual Joshua Tree Music Festival. Jeffrey designs learning experiences, culture, and regenerative communities, and is a lifelong student of belonging and collective joy, inspiring students to see with a renewed sense of beauty and wonder.
Tune In
Inner Vision Aperitivo on Spotify