Creativity through art: Creative and critical skills for personal development

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With the rapid rise of generative AI, such as Chat-GPT, we face many new challenges. Keeping the status quo is no longer sustainable; focusing merely on problem-solving is insufficient, and to overcome the ‘threat’ of AI as well as to coexist with it, we must be evermore innovative.

Luckily, creativity remains one of the irreplaceable qualities we humans possess. Today, incorporating both creative and critical skills into business and life is key. To achieve this, arts is a vital tool - through arts, we can cultivate our sensibilities and expand our possibilities. Museums are an integral part of this endeavour. By providing the space to perceive, reflect and engage with artefacts directly, they stimulate and unlock our hidden potential.

Please join us for creative talks by museum directors, artists, and connoisseurs, followed by a reception with sake and sushi!

Programme

• Welcome from Dr Fabio Gygi, Chair of JRC and Dr Satona Suzuki, Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History
• Speech by Professor Kawakami Masanao, Professor at the School of Economics and Management at University of Hyogo, Japan: "The Importance of Art and Creativity."
• Speech by Mrs Morohashi Hiroko, Chairman of Advisory Board, Xebio Holdings/Councillor at the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art: "The strong link between Art and Business."
• Shamisen Performance
• Speech by PJ Crook, contemporary artist: "Where do we draw inspiration and creativity from?"
• Speech by Dr Monika Hinkel, Lecturer in the Arts of Japan: "Japanese art and Curation."
• Reception (Sake and Sushi) with Shamisen Performance

Contact

• Organiser: SOAS Japan Research Centre
• Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk