Imagination
When school kills children's imagination
A raft of changes is coming to the education sector. Will they fix the problems, or just crush creativity?
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When school kills children's imagination
A raft of changes is coming to the education sector. Will they fix the problems, or just crush creativity?
The whakapapa of a story from imagination to understanding, laid out by Lyttelton poet Ben Brown
Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paoa) speaks about the power of imagination and its deep roots in te ao Māori at the 2021 WORD Christchurch Festival. Audio
How Covid-19 is affecting your dreams
Feel like you're dreaming a lot more recently? You're not alone. Many people are reporting unusually vivid dreams during the Covid-19 lockdown. Professor Mark Blagrove, a sleep and dream researcher at… Audio
How daydreams help shape our sense of self
Psychologist Eve Blouin-Hudon is an expert on creativity and imagination at Carleton University in Ottawa and has studied daydreams at length. Audio
Passion no guarantee of creativity
Discussing the relationship between science and creativity are Julie Maxton, Executive Director of the United Kingdom's Royal Society and Professor Bruce Sheridan, a New Zealand academic at Chicago's… Audio
What I do is build an unreal house and I fill it with real storms
An intensely personal memoir by one of the country's leading writers of fantasy, exploring the roots of her interest in alternative reality, and intertwining her own story, and that of her family into… Audio
