Conference Agenda
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Keynote - Ineke Sluiter: Their future isn’t our past: the ancient world, humanities, and innovation thinking
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Their future isn’t our past: the ancient world, humanities, and innovation thinking Leiden University In 1900, how did people imagine the year 2000? An interesting source for answering this question will help us to highlight the importance of the Humanities and Social Sciences in thinking about innovation. Imagination, creativity, and future thinking are always anchored and situated. As a result, their year 2000 is not our year 2000. Also, the still predominant association between innovation and technological or medical inventions may obscure the importance of innovation as socially embedded action. I will use ideas from the research program Anchoring Innovation (www.anchoringinnovation.nl) and cognition studies to take us on a tour that will include imaginings of human flight, automatic doors in Homer’s Ilias, a Greek version of a Persian drinking horn, the icons on our smart phones, and the many different human experiences that are hidden behind one gorgeous marble floor in Rome. | ||