Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement
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Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement
Curiosity cannot be cultivated inside cultures that treat knowledge exclusively as a static object in which engagement with thinking is positioned as the banking of information. Human beings are not savings accounts, they are originators of value creation—one of the key attributes of curiosity.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of fi
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Framing your curiosity project positively is about enabling a desirable outcome rather than avoiding an undesirable outcome. The rhetoric of curious people emphasizes gains, and their stories exhibit a strong preference for action, movement, and eagerness over cautiousness and vigilance. They used words like gain, benefit, win, advance, learn, care
... See moreDr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
Curation is so deeply under-explored on the Internet in my opinion. It sits right in between consumption and creation and is the perfect bridge between the two, allowing us to actively engage with what we consume to then produce work from this saved knowledge.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
What better way to follow the call of curiosity and to court serendipity, though, than to weave between disciplines and ways of knowing, defying borders and boundaries as we go?
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Curiosity, we argue, is a capacity to connect—to build knowledge networks. Curiosity builds relationships between pieces of knowledge as much as between the people who want to know them. For this reason, we characterize curiosity as “edgework”—constantly laying down relationships between ideas, experiences, concepts, and objects in the world. Impor
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Imagine a curiosity that is more social and praxiological than it is individual, intellectual, and acquisitional. Imagine a curiosity that aims less to know X, to find out X, or to cognize X than to make connections, build constellations, find links, and follow threads. Imagine a curiosity that is collective and interconnective, functioning within
... See morePerry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Curation is the art of selection . It’s the filtering through the vast expanse of information we are exposed to, choosing what deserves our attention.