WCCI Lectures

The Lecture Series in Creativity and Innovation, organized by the WCCI, invites leading international experts to present the state of the art within creativity and innovation and discuss their work. The lectures are open to the public and free of charge.

Future events in the Lecture series:

10th of December 2021, Digital creativity: Augumenting human creativity through digital technologies, a talk by Dr. Carmen Bruno, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Past events in the Lecture series include:

7th of October 2021, The InnoGame: A creative learning and development tool, a talk by Dr. Pia Stalder, HEIG-VD, Switzerland.

27th of April 2021, Sticky notes in creative design practice, a talk by Prof. Kim Halskov, Aarhus University, Denmark. The talk can be accessed here.

22nd of February 2021, The media’s role in shaping creative self-beliefs, a talk by Dr. Izabela Lebuda, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

11th of November 2020, Aesthetics and the creative process, a talk by Dr. Marc Stierand, Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), Switzerland. Online event. More details can be found here

6th of October 2020, Wonder: The meaning and value of wondering in education and society, a talk by Dr. Vlad Glaveanu, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland. Online event. The talk can be watched here.

8th of June 2020, Uncertainty and Creativity in Times of Crisis, an online talk by Prof. Ronald Beghetto, Arizona State University, USA, and a discussion moderated by Wendy Ross (Kingston University, UK) and Vlad Glaveanu (Webster University Geneva, Switzerland). Accessible here

30th of January 2020, Creativity and innovation: Processes and context, talks and a panel discussion with Dr. Pierpaolo Andriani, Kedge Business School, France, and Dr. Renata Kaminska, SKEMA Business School and the University Côte d’Azur, France. More details about the event can be found here.

27th of November 2019, Curiosity and creativity: The big picture, a talk by Michael Hanchett Hanson, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. More details about the event can be found here.

3rd of October 2019, Reading the label: Gifted, talented and creative, a talk by Connie Phelps, EdD, Emporia State University, USA. More details about the event can be found here.

16th of April 2019, A time for creativity: The role of temporal dimensions for creativity, a talk by Dr. Alexander S. McKay, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. More details about the event can be found here.

26th of February 2019, Creativity and learning at the workplace, a talk by Adj. Prof. Kaija Collin and Soila Lemmetty, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. More details about the event can be found here.

29th of January 2019, Sua Cuique Persona: ‘Face as Mask’ in Photographic Portraits of Italians in 21st century Switzerland, a talk by Francesco Arese Visconti, Webster University Geneva. More details about the event can be found here.

8th of November 2018, Examining the brain basis of creativity, a lecture by Prof. Anna Abraham, Leeds Beckett University, UK. More details about the event can be found here.

10th of October 2018, Creativity in the Digital Age: Current state and future directions, Dr. Michael Mose Biskjaer, Center for Digital Creativity, Aarhus University, Denmark. More details about the event can be found here.

18th of September 2018, Interdisciplinarity Needs You! Thinking across disciplines for creativity, non-conformism and action in a complex world, Prof. Frédéric Darbellay, University of Geneva, Switzerland. More details about the event can be found here.

24th of May 2018, Creative vs. Computational Thinking: When Surprise Becomes a Rational Necessity, Prof. Giovanni Corazza from the University of Bologna, Italy. More details about the event can be found here.

7th of May 2018, Not your parents’ creativity: Complexity, transdisciplinarity, and the emerging picture of creativity, Prof. Alfonso Montuori from the California Institute of Integral Studies, USA. More details about the event can be found here.

16th of April 2018, Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Art Market?, Dr. Julianna Sandholm-Bark, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland. More details about the event can be found here.

19th of March 2018, Participatory creativity in practice, Dr. Michael Hanchett Hanson, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, USA. More details about the event can be found here.

26th of February 2018, New discoveries and persistent ideas in creativity, Prof. Mark Runco. More details about the event can be found here.

25th of January 2018, And what if the desert bloomed again? Imagination at the heart of human and social experience, Prof. Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. More details about the event can be found here.

26th of October 2017, Opening the black box of creativity, Dr. Vlad Glaveanu, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland. More details about the event can be found here.