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If you have children in your life, you probably have experienced this. You join them while they are building something with blocks and Magna-Tiles, and you are surprised at how their brains think.
You might be building a house, a city, a bridge, or a rocket. In our adult brains, we go back to what we know already exists and works, but the child has a different idea.
At first, you let them explore and try thinking, “Well, it will be a good physics lesson when all crumbles.” And while this is the case quite often, from time to time they surprise you with a structure or solution that you would have never thought could work.
While we can’t do these types of experiments in real life, maybe some imaginative and innovative solutions to modern-world problems could be found.
What would happen if we encouraged teams to imagine big and experiment with model solutions that some would think wouldn’t work simply because they are too “unconventional”?
Well, a recent study thought exactly about this, offering many inspiring ideas to help us survive and thrive our way out of the climate crisis. |
