Balder Onarheim

Short CV

Balder Onarheim is an Associate Professor in creativity at the Technical University of Denmark. He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a PhD on “Creativity under Constraints" from Copenhagen Business School. His research is focused on creativity training and teaching creativity. His professional background is from engineering design, medical equipment design, and innovation strategy consulting.

Furthermore, Balder Onarheim is the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity and the CEO at PlatoScience, the world's first creativity boosting headset.

The major question that will be addressed at his presentation during ICAB2017 is:

• Why is it so crucial that our science-curriculums for bachelor students, and any other levels, include topics on creative thinking?

Furthermore he will address related questions like:

• How do we study and understand creativity in the psychologically founded research tradition?
• Where, when, how should topics on creative thinking be implemented in the curriculum and/or courses, to have the strongest effect?
• When teaching/training creativity, how can we test and assess the outcome of training.

Finally he will give a short introduction to neurostimulation devices, as an example of a new upcoming direction in strengthening creativity.