7 Lessons on Creativity & Design that Will Change the World

This talk draws from Ben Rennie’s book Lessons in Creativity and his work as Chair of Design Declares Australia to explore seven lessons about creativity and design.

Rennie has worked with Nike, Patagonia, the NBA, Chanel, Prada, Oakley and the US Government. He spent nineteen years running a design agency before turning his focus to writing and speaking about creativity and design practice.

Rennie will examine why fear kills creativity, what happens when fear and curiosity work together instead of against each other, and how the Indigenous principle of seven-generations thinking can influence design practice – from brand work to systemic design and from commercial projects to planetary thinking.

This is a forty-five-minute talk followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.