Convivial Conversations in Tokyo: Creativity Beyond Design Thinking. Some Thoughts after CREATOYO
Channel: Multifactory - The Rise of Community Economy
Date: 18/02/2020

A convivial Conversation about what is the meaning of creativity after four days at Creatoyo Conference at Toyo University - Tokyo.
+ René Carraz Associate Professor teaching about innovation, entrepreneurship and design thinking at the Toyo University of Economics and CREATOYO Organiser.
* Veronika Antoniou architect dealing with collaboration in public spaces. Urban Guerrillas NGO founder. 
* Lorenza Salati and Giulio Focardi entrepreneurs dealing with innovation and horizontal governance systems. OSUN WES s.r.l. founders.

During Creatoyo Veronica, Lorenza and Giulio run a Design Thinking Workshop: "Lonely Together - How to make scenarios about the loneliness issue in 2060 in Tokyo." 

We would like to share some inner thoughts, a genuine reflection on how to find solutions to current issues and problems companies and society are facing today.

CREATOYO and MULTIFACTORY are experiences where co-creation happens by mixing together people from different background, nationalities, age and gender. 

We all know that there is a need to rethink creativity, to break away from the "design thinking" practice and move forward to different models for problem-solving. Creativity is not a linear process, so we need to create  different process and offer new workshops to generate creative ideas.

We understand that we have good models but then we need to adapt these models to different environments where they are applied.

We agree that the key to building new and better societies is going beyond the classically structured pyramidal society that is now a comfort zone, where people can find his own space, can choose to become a manager or an employe standing to his character and attitude. But we know this structure is not fitting anymore the environmental and societal issues we need to fix now. 
What we think is that horizontal structures which are faster and which can adapt much more to single specific situations and conditions can work better, and are more efficient.

Thank you for watching. 
To know more about us:
https://www.creatoyo.jp/
http://www.osunwes.eu/
http://urbangorillas.org/