A great talk from the TED Conference by Steven Berlin Johnson considering the types of spaces most likely to spark new ideas. Not surprisingly, ideas rarely appear all at once, the result of isolation and the individual genius. Johnson walks through a range of examples, from natural selection to GPS, to illustrate that great ideas are born of communities with a wide range of interests and expertise.

Thanks to Joyce Haley for sending this along. She just opened the Morris and Mitchell student Ad/PR agency on campus and has spent most of her summer thinking about designing spaces that spark creativity, an interest we share for the new Learning Studio.