Creative Strategies – Page 2

Creative Strategies (Page 2)

Over the course of 30 years I’ve developed some creative strategies that have allowed me to successfully ply my trade around the world. In the lead-up to the release of my latest book, This Could, I am sharing some of the tools and strategies I’ve used over the years to make ideas happen.

When people ask for the recipe—the “how do you do what you do”—question I tell them it is about learning how to create opportunity inside systems. It’s not about being inside or outside a system, or being allowed or denied by the system—it’s about finding the wedge that creates opportunity in the system.

Creative strategies enable you to find opportunity in systems and work with the resources at hand to maximize the impact of what is available to you.

Strategy 1: Make Ideas Happen by Leveraging the City’s Allowances

Many great ideas for the public realm have been defeated by the notion of “getting permission” before they’ve had a chance to come to life. Here are three methods for bringing ideas to life in the city.Continue Reading

How to Make Ideas Happen: Creative Strategies Series

Over the course of 30 years of plying my trade around the world, I’ve developed some decent creative strategies along the way. In the lead-up to the release of my latest book, I’m sharing some of them here.Continue Reading