In the design of a recent concert hall, I found myself asking "what does music look like?"

It's time we reclaim the arts for our kids. The benefits are just too great to ignore and it's a true win-win for everyone.

Watching Janet Echelman's TEDTalk, "Taking Imagination Seriously," brought me back to a time when I believed life needed to follow certain guidelines, no matter how restrictive.

The number of people who live their lives thinking they don't like art bewilders me. In fact the question consumes me so much that I've taken to asking it to everyone I meet. Occasionally I discover another art lover, but more often than not the reaction is befuddlement.

Creativity involves the intentional, systematic, and rigorous miscombination of what we know in order to generate something new. Because having too many variables makes the process hard to control, most creative people frequently change just one or two aspects of something.

People need to live and work and play in a community that itself is creative, that nurtures creativity, and gets us to think differently.