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ROUNDTABLE: Improvisation and Social Policy

Roger Dean, Eric Lewis, Desmond Manderson, Tracey Nicholls, Daniel Weinstock

Published: 2009-09-10

VIDEO: Participants discuss possible ways in which improvisation can be used to develop social policies that are more responsive to the needs and interests of people they are targeted towards. Discussion of the pitfalls and mistakes that characterize improvised processes is also a central aspect of the talk. TEXT: Biographies of the roundtable participants.

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We’ll all be more innovative if we participate in collaborative webs and share more openly. Creativity is always a collaboration and it’s always a form of improvisation, written large in the social world.

– Keith Sawyer