Spacing contributor Gordon Price will be speaking at the next Creative Mornings Vancouver on August 2, 2013.
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, followed by a group discussion and Q&A. The gathering begins at 8:30 am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00 am and everyone taking off for work by 10 am. You can learn more here.
This month, Gordon will be exploring the impacts of creativity on our urban environment, and correspondingly, the impacts of the urban environment on our creativity.
Details
When: Friday, August 2, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
Where: Dodson Conference Centre 25 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, V6A 1M9
RSVP: To get a ticket, sign up here. Tickets will not be available until Monday July 29th @ 11:00am.
Breakfast will be generously provided by this month’s support partner Nature’s Path.
Important Info:
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About Gordon
Gordon Price is the Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, he finished his sixth term as a City Councillor in Vancouver, BC. He also served on the Board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro Vancouver) and was appointed to the first board of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink) in 1999.
He has spoken at numerous conventions and conferences in many countries, writes a monthly column for Business in Vancouver on civic issues, and conducts tours and seminars on the development of Vancouver. He also publishes an electronic magazine on urban issues, with a focus on Vancouver, called “Price Tags”, as well as this blog.
In additions to presentations in the U.S. and Australia, Gordon is a regular lecturer on transportation and land use for the City of Portland, Oregon and Portland State University. He has written several extensive essays on Vancouver and transportation issues Deceptive City, Local Politician’s Guide to Urban Transportation. In 2003, he received the Plan Canada Award for Article of the Year – Land Use and Transportation: The View from ’56 – from the Canadian Institute of Planners.
In 2007, he received The Smarty – an award of recognition by Smart Growth B.C. – in the People category, and was made an honorary member of the Planning Institute of B.C. He sits on the Boards of the Sightline Institute and Sustainable Cities International
Here is a profile and Q&A that Gordon did for the Creative Mornings team:
CMV: How do you define creativity and apply it in your career?
GP: Applying observations, knowledge or perspective from one area of interest (or, better yet, passion) to another.CMV: Where do you find your best creative inspiration?
GP: Trail running. Or times when, focused on a physical activity, you let the mind sneak in some connection you wouldn’t achieve through concentration.CMV: What’s the one creative advice or tip you wish you’d known as a young person?
GP: Persistence. Don’t worry whether a project is perfect or complete; just get that draft done, leave it to gestate, and when you return to it tomorrow, it’ll seem better than you thought it was. Or at least you’ll be less frustrated and prepared to take the next step. Then revise, revise, revise.CMV: Who would you like to hear speak at CreativeMornings?
GP: Steven Johnson: “Where Good Ideas Come From”CMV: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
GP: Kayaking the Capilano River in flood. Still have the scar from a dislocated shoulder to show for that one.CMV: How would you describe what you do in a single sentence to a stranger?
GP: Well now, that entirely depends on the stranger.CMV: What keeps you awake at night?
GP: Whether our eventual (and incredibly delayed) response to climate change might be too late for this civilization.CMV: What are you proudest of in your life?
GP: Helping found AIDS Vancouver and hopefully saving some lives.CMV: If you could do anything now, what would you do?
GP: Traveling without a carbon footprint, in good health, with enough resources, to meet people in fascinating places who could show me the world through their eyes.CMV: Where was the last place you travelled?
GP: Madrid and Barcelona.CMV: What is the one movie or book every creative must see/read?
GP: Koyaanisqatsi. So many of its techniques (particularly time-lapse and minimalist music) have been ripped off so often, they can seem like cliches now. (So it helps to know where they came from.) Regardless, this visual essay (slowest moving and fastest paced movie you’re likely to see in one sitting) is still so powerful and relevant, and provokes new perceptions when you leave the theatre. (And you have to see in a theatre.)
