By Arthur P. Molella, Anna Karvellas
The spouse e-book to an upcoming museum exhibition of an identical identify, Places of Invention seeks to respond to well timed questions on the character of invention and innovation: what's it approximately a few areas that sparks invention and innovation? Is it easily being on the correct position on the correct time, or is it greater than that? How does “place”—whether actual, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and form innovation? Why does invention flourish in a single spot yet fight in one other, even very comparable situation? in brief: Why there? Why then?
Places of Invention frames present and historical dialog at the courting among position and creativity, mentioning large scholarship within the zone and 20 years of research and research from the nationwide Museum of yankee History’s Lemelson heart for the examine of Invention and Innovation. The e-book is equipped round six position case stories: Hartford, CT, overdue 1800s; Hollywood, CA, Thirties; clinical Alley, MN, Fifties; Bronx, NY,1970s; Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s–1980s; and castle Collins, CO, 2010s. Interspersed with those case stories are dispatches from 3 “learning labs” detailing Smithsonian associate museums’ paintings utilizing Places of Invention as a version for documenting neighborhood invention and innovation.
Written through exhibition curators, every one a part of the ebook makes a speciality of the critical thesis that invention is in every single place and fueled by way of specific mixtures of inventive humans, prepared assets, and encouraging atmosphere. just like the destinations it explores, Places of Invention indicates how the historical past ofinvention could be a transformative lens for figuring out neighborhood historical past and cultivating creativity on scales of position starting from the private to the nationwide and past.
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