Onarheim, Balder. Assoc. Professor, the Technical University of Denmark
About the speaker: Dr. Balder Onarheim is a serial entrepreneur and associate professor in creativity at the Technical University of Denmark. He is the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity and CEO at PlatoScience: making the world’s first creativity boosting headset. Balder’s expertise lies within a neurologically based understanding of creativity, and methods to use this understanding to make people better problem solvers. He is a popular speaker with talks at prestigious conferences and universities around the world, and more than 275.000 people has seen his TEDx talk “3 tools to become more creative”.
"Research and Creativity. On cognition, metacognition and creativity"
Dr. Balder Onarheim will focus on cognitive theories of creative practice, and how knowledge of these theories can be used to optimize and improve the creative process. The workshop will consist of two parts:
- Cognitive theories of creative practice: from neurobiology to metacognition
- Creative cognition in practice: how to apply a cognitive understanding to academic work.