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Nothing new can emerge without first a coming together. Creation -- in all of its infinite forms -- requires an encounter: of people, of materials, of ideas. Everything was born of relations -- of chemistry and community, of labor and love. Every single thing.

This simple truth poses important questions: For if everything is born from a cauldron of relations -- from whence comes the spark? And might not some types of relations prove more an obstacle to creativity than its fertile soup? Answers to these questions could in turn help us to answer perhaps the most important question of all: How can we create a more creative world?

On Thursday August 30, 2012, TEDxBlackRockCity seeks to investigate the nature of creativity and possibilities of its fluorescence.