La créativité commence avant que nous sachions la nommer.
Avant de dessiner, un enfant sait déjà regarder. Avant d’écrire, il sait écouter. Avant d’expliquer, il sait s’étonner. La créativité ne commence pas par un métier, mais par la manière dont une personne touche le monde.
Lire le manifesteTHE FIRST ENCOUNTERS
Tout commence par les plus petites rencontres.
Light through a window.
The sound of rain.
The surface of a stone.
The smell of soil after rain.
A leaf with an unfamiliar shape.
A shadow moving across the wall.
La créativité commence par l’attention.
CREATIVITY IS NOT A TALENT CATEGORY
La créativité n’est pas un titre professionnel.
La créativité est la manière dont l’être humain répond au monde.
PROTECT CURIOSITY
La curiosité ne doit pas seulement être encouragée. Elle doit être protégée.
Do not correct too early.
Do not force every question to produce an immediate answer.
Do not turn every game into a lesson.
Do not praise only polished outcomes.
Do not make children afraid to try another way.
Do not let comparison make curiosity smaller.
PLAY IS SERIOUS
Le jeu est l’une des premières formes de pensée créative.
In play, a child learns that one object can become another, a rule can change and a story can have more than one ending.
Jouer, c’est répéter des possibilités qui n’existent pas encore.
SEEING BEFORE MAKING
La créativité ne commence pas par la production. Elle commence par l’attention.
Look longer.
Listen more carefully.
Touch real materials.
Notice what is usually passed over.
See a relationship others walk past.
NATURE AS THE FIRST TEACHER
La nature fut le premier studio créatif de l’humanité.
La nature ne dit pas à l’enfant quoi créer. Elle lui donne assez pour que l’imagination commence.
TIME WITHOUT INSTRUCTION
Not every minute needs to be directed.
THE FEAR OF BEING WRONG
Creativity rarely disappears because ideas run out.
It is more often made smaller by the fear of being wrong, looking foolish, being unfinished or being judged too early.
A creative culture must let unfinished and imperfect ideas live long enough.
CREATIVITY AS CULTURE
Une culture créative est un lieu où personne ne doit demander la permission d’être curieux.
Permission to ask.
Permission to try another way.
Permission not to know.
Permission to make something unfinished.
Permission to be wrong without becoming smaller.
Permission to keep an idea that has no economic value yet.
PRACTICED EVERY DAY
Creativity is practiced not only by making more, but by sensing more deeply.
LookAt something familiar for longer
ListenTo a sound usually ignored
AskA question not yet asked
TryAnother way
TouchA real material
Leave openAn idea that needs no conclusion yet
FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD
Grandir ne devrait pas signifier perdre la capacité d’imaginer.
CREATIVITY CHANGES CULTURE
Creativity does not only make new objects. It helps society imagine new ways to live.
Every cultural change begins when someone looks again at what was assumed, asks a different question and imagines a possibility that was not yet considered normal.