Special Colloquia

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 10-11:30 AM EDT.

Since 2017, the CAUEs of Île-de-France (regional Architecture, Urban Planning and Environmental Councils) have been engaged in a action-research approach in partnership with territories on the consideration of biodiversity in projects. This innovative, multi-layered, participative methodology, which is always based on the discovery of key values, facilitates the building of territorial strategy “compasses” that make it possible to define actions and behaviors and to measure the progress of projects over time. This values-based approach has made it possible to create the conditions for a fruitful dialogue between different stakeholders (elected officials, heads of associations, local administrative authorities, researchers, etc.) and to promote actions in the field in favor of biodiversity.

Dr Dartiguepeyrou is a political scientist and strategic and futures analyst. She is an advisor to industry, not-for-profit and government sectors, and a well-known researcher and writer on sustainability governance issues and future strategies. Carine has been working to promote values literacy in European organizations and institutions for more than two decades and has published widely on the future of values. She is a key contributor to the development of Values Perspectives coaching, training and consulting practices, and spearheaded its translation into French. Based in Paris, she is co-founder and president of l’Observatoire des Valeurs.

Colloquium POWERPOINT

TUESDAY, August 16, 1:30-3:00 PM EDT. Contemporary norms image the artist and technologist as having divergent aims and values. But Greek Hephaistos, the lame blacksmith god, and Makers known in other mythologies were anciently revered as aspects of the same powerful archetype. By the time of Plato, a mythically skewed or “deformed” gait metaphorically places the Maker in opposition, and inferior to, the “straight” gait denoting legitimate power in the Greek polis. But a new appraisal of the Maker archetype shows that it also embodies what the Greeks called Metis (roughly, “cunning intelligence”) and is associated with the primordial Oceanic powers of shapeshifting and ambiguity. This view stakes a mythopoetic claim, centering the Hephaistean archetype in a poetics of making that reclaims its ancient, multivalent roots.

Cheryl is a trained art historian and mythologist with a depth psychological perspective. Cheryl is an artist working in many media; her work is described as meditative, shamanic and magical. Her parallel career in human development has focused on pioneering hands-on creative learning methodologies and on co-developing, with Kenton Hyatt, a non-judgmental approach to dialogue through human values. Cheryl studies myths found worldwide at the cultural intersection between the mysteries of physical embodiment, instrumentality and creativity, and the human desire to live a good life; ultimately coming to peaceful terms with the final mystery, death.

Suggested Article: “The Gait of Hephaistos”

Colloquium POWERPOINT

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2-3:30 PM EDT. in 1990, after learning that half a million people were in refugee camps in Thailand, Sheila photographed in five Cambodian and Hmong camps in Thailand and began a longitudinal project on the aftermath of war and its effect on the peoples who survive.

Sheila is a passionate artist-activist and educator with extraordinary research skills she has turned to projects of vital interest in the form of documentation presented through the social channel of contemporary art. Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles, Houston, Denver and Philadelphia museums of art. She is attaining long-deserved recognition as an artist of historical importance, and her work has recently been added to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sheila is Emerita Professor of Art at Pomona College. Learn more about her published works here.

Sheila Pinkel’s Wikipedia Page.

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2-3 PM EDT.

The elephant in the room, ever since Descartes emphatically shouldered European thought towards an all-encompassing rational materialism, has been the human unconscious—which, by definition, like the creative urges that emanate from it, defies any boundary our rational minds attempt to place on it. Because our creative instincts defy categorization, the models of human creativity since the 18th century (and earlier) have vigorously avoided attempting to traverse what Freud called the “royal road” through a threshold of engagement with the infinite connectiveness and irredicuble Otherness of our creative wellspring.

What if we were to try again, by accepting that our creativity eludes all boundaries and instead, each seek to engage it in what Martin Buber called the “I-Thou” relationship?

Kenton taught human communication (speech, visual communication, journalism, photography) for 20 years, which deeply informed his second career in self-aware leadership development, and dialogue-based values alignment. He is an artist working in the medium of photography, which in his eyes captures the infinite variety of sky and sea; and of oil painting through which he constructs imaginary sea-, sky- and landscapes which though imaginal are nevertheless recognizably, utterly true to Nature.

More about Radical Creativity

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 10-11:30 AM EDT. Annette helps leaders to grasp the extraordinary power of story as a means to influence, persuade and inspire. Her book, The Story Factor, has been named one of the “100 Best Business Books of All Time.“ In her most recent extended research project, on power, Annette found that there is a critical difference between how women and men define what power means, who should have it, how it works and what goals it should achieve. Her findings on the effects of approaching leadership with a Collaborative Narrative or with a Competitive Narrative have relevance for all leaders. We already know we can choose our values: we can also choose stories that frame our values as priorities.

Annette is also author of Territorial Games, on the reality of workplace turf wars, A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths, on dialogue, and her new book, Drinking from a Different Well. Find out more here.

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