Theme: Motivation and Creativity

An Evening with Curious Minds is intended to be a common heading for TEDxNorrköping, and the theme for the first event, Thursday September 22, 2011, is Motivation and Creativity. There will be talks about the role of motivation in different situatrions and also about different kinds of motivation: Internat to each one as curiosity, desire to succeed and to contribute, etc., as well as external in terms of e.g. praise, awards, and promotions. Such motivation will also be discussed in relation to creativity.
Participation will be by invitation only, and the guests are carefully selected based on special experience and understanding, position and influence, and also ability to inspire and to spread enthusiasm.

Louis De Geer konsert & kongress
Dalsgatan 15
Norrköping, Östergötlands län, SE-60181
Sweden

Bo Larsson

Educator,

Bosse Larsson is a Swedish teacher, trainer and concept developer. He has extensive experience developing creative thinking and learning with primary and secondary students, and is a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop leader. He graduated from the university in 1985 and went on to work as a teacher, senior leader and then mentor for trainee teachers. In 2000, he began to specialise in supporting secondary school dropouts and students with special educational needs.

Lennart Green

Misdirector, close-up card magician

Swedish world champion close-up/card magician, a title which he won in 1991 at the FISM convention in Lausanne, Switzerland He is known for his seemingly chaotic routines which, in spite of first appearances, display great skill. His original techniques and presentation style form an unorthodox and innovative contribution to sleight of hand magic. Green competed at the 1988 FISM convention in The Hague, Netherlands, and was erroneously disqualified because the judges incorrectly believed he had used stooges in his act to shuffle the cards. In 1991, he performed the same act but insisted that the judges themselves shuffle the cards to prove that he used no stooges. The judges then awarded him first place.

Niklas Lernnartsson

Magicion, chef

Nico's specialty is card magic and his repertoire extends across complicated gambling techniques, cups-and-balls and ‘con’ magic. Nico is able to perform magic suitable for both children and adults. Magic can be performed as a show on stage or with a smaller audience as mingle-magic or close-up shows. Welcome to NLMAGIC This is the official website of magician Nick Lennartsson. You are invited to experience an extraordinary sleight of hand. Nico's specialty is card magic and his repertoire extends across complicated gambling techniques, cups-and-balls and ‘con’ magic. Nico is able to perform magic suitable for both children and adults. Magic can be performed as a show on stage or with a smaller audience as mingle-magic or close-up shows. This page contains information about the type of shows that Nico is offering. Nick has been performing all over the world in big cities such as New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Phoenix, Macedonia, Bangkok Spain and Gibraltar.

Peter Gärdenfors

Full professor Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities since 1996. Member of Academia Europaea since 1999. Presented with the electronic Festschrift Spinning Ideas on my 50th birthday. Member of Leopoldina Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher since 2004. Vice chairman of the Natur och Kultur Foundation since 2007. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science since 2009. Member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel since 2011. Awards The Rausing prize in humanities in 1996. Senior Individual Grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 1997. The prize for interdisciplinary research by Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis in 2008. The Hermann Lotze Prize 2012. Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal 2012.