Art, Science, Engineering & A.I.: The Future of Creative Collaboration
Website Publication Date: September 24, 2025
Content: Full 26-minute lecture NAE webinar
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Seeing Like A Scientist, Seeing Like An Artist
Website Publication Date: June 24, 2025
Content: 4-Minute Video
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Drawing Inspiration From the Past
Website Publication Date: September 24, 2025
Content: Full 26-minute lecture NAE webinar
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Beyond Newton’s Shadow
Website Publication Date: June 23, 2025
Content: 45-minute talk. Ryan Complexity Institute Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Can Leadership & Creativity Coexist
Website Publication Date: June 11, 2025
Content: 5-Minute Video
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Augmenting Our Thinking for a Cloud World
Website Publication Date: April 24, 2025
Content: 3-Minute Video
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The Past Enriching the Present
Website Publication Date: February 12, 2025
Content: Short Form Article
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The New Central Planning
Website Publication Date: February 1, 2025
Content: WSJ Op-ed Article
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Design Thinking & Evolution
Website Publication Date: January 7, 2025
Content: 3-minute Video & PowerPoint Slides
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Creativity Across Domains
Website Publication Date: January 7, 2025
Content: PNAS Nexus Publication, Long Form Article
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When Science Ends, Design Begins
Website Publication Date: December 13, 2024
Content: Long Form Essay / White Paper
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Can We Let Our Brains Do What They Have Been Designed to Do?
Website Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Content: Long Form Essay / White Paper
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How to Deal with the World Now
Website Publication Date: November 22, 2024
Content: 4-minute Video & Article
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Two Remarkable Women, the Birth of the Word Scientist, and the Origins of Computer Science
Website Publication Date: October 23, 2024
Content: 4-minute Video & Article
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Creating Creativity
Website Publication Date: October 1, 2024
Content: 4-minute Video & Article
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How Can We Help People Understand Complex Systems?
Website Publication Date: September 29, 2024
Content: 4-minute Video & Article
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How to Motivate the New Workforce with Nexus Leadership
Website Publication Date: September 18, 2024
Content: Short Article
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How Is Creativity Influenced by Market Forces?
Website Publication Date: September 8, 2024
Content: Short Article
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Nexus Leadership Lessons
Website Publication Date: September 3, 2024
Content: Short Article with Poster Format Diagrams
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Creativity: Is There Room for Any More Advice?
Website Publication Date: August 21, 2024
Content: Long Form Article
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Thinking that Connects Domains
Website Publication Date: August 13, 2024
Content: Full 39-minute lecture—Thinking that Connects Domains: Evolution of Ideas across Art, Math, Science, and Technology, at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference, Chicago, May 2024
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How Interdisciplinary Thinking Can Make You More Creative (And A Better Leader)!
Website Publication Date: August 1, 2024
Content: Full 55-minute interview, Thinking on Paper with Jeremy Gilbertson and Mark Fielding
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Navigating Disruption: Why Organizations Need a Compass, Not Just a Map
Website Publication Date: August 8, 2024
Content: Long Form Article
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NEXUS: The New Convergence of Art, Technology & Science
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 15-minute speech, JMO TWIN Impact / The World Innovation Network Miami. Introducing the book The Nexus.
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How Art, Science, and Technology Separated (and May Join Again)
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 5-minute lecture, Northwestern University Women’s Board
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The Future of Design: Introducing The Nexus
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 49-minute interview, Marco Bevolo and Filiberto Amati interview Julio Mario Ottino & Bruce Mau on The Nexus
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Complex Systems: A Landscape View
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 44-minute lecture, NAE FOCUS Complex Food and Agricultural Systems
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NEXUS: The New Convergence of Art, Technology & Science
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 15-minute lecture, TWIN Global – The World Innovation Network
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The Nexus: Understanding Different Ways of Thinking
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 54-minute lecture, JMO and Bruce Mau share thoughts during their October 20 talk, The Nexus: The Concepts, Its Design, and Implications.
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Explaining The Nexus
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 1 hour and 54-minute lecture, JMO and Bruce Mau – Explaining The Nexus: The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science at the CUDAN Open Lab Seminar zoom session on April 25, 2022
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Creativity, Design, and Whole-Brain Thinking
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 30-minute lecture, addressing incoming students of the class of 2020 at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering
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Engineering, Humanities, and the Nexus
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 1 hour and 21-minute lecture at the University of Puerto Rico
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Art, Technology, and Science: Intersections, Bifurcations, and Opportunities
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 57-minute lecture presented December 15, 2022 at the Northwestern Emeriti Organization (NEO)
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Engineering Complex Systems and Complex Systems Engineering
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 52-minute lecture presented at the National Science Foundation
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Creative Processes in Science and Technology: Insights from the Visual Arts
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: 5-minute Lecture Presented at a Google Tech Talk on May 14, 2009
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Chemical Engineering in the Context of all Engineering
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 28-minute Lecture Presented at World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Buenos Aires 2023
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The Art of Mixing with an Admixture of Art
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: Full 48-minute Lecture Presented at The Society of Engineering Science (SES) on October 8-11, 2023 during the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science in Minneapolis, MN
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Whole-Brain Engineering
Website Publication Date: July 24, 2024
Content: 26-minute whole video, Bernard M. Gordon Prize Lecture at the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Solving Complex Problems with Nexus Thinking
Website Publication Date: July 23, 2024
Content: Short article with link to podcast, Solving Complex Problems with Nexus Thinking with Julio M. Ottino, Breaking Boundaries Podcast, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, interview by Annelise Riles
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Top Five Lessons from The Nexus in Leadership for Innovation
Website Publication Date: July 18, 2024
Content: Short article, Poster Format
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The Top 10 Lessons in Creativity and Leadership from The Nexus Book
Website Publication Date: July 18, 2024
Content: Short article, Poster Format
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How Setbacks and Constraints Enhance Your Creativity
Website Publication Date: July 4, 2024
Content: Short Form Article
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What Can We Learn From Studying the Work Modes of Highly Creative People?
Website Publication Date: June 14, 2024
Content: Long Form Article
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The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science
Website Publication Date: June 13, 2024
Content: The Nexus Video in Black & White
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2024 U.S. Naval Academy Michelson Lecture
Website Publication Date: June 5, 2024
Content: April 17, 2024 – US Naval Academy Michelson Memorial Lecture, 40 minutes
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A.I.: Amazing Possibilities Lie Ahead
Website Publication Date: May 11, 2024
Content: Long Form Article with Poster
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Can A.I. Help You Ask Transformational Questions? Not yet.
Website Publication Date: March 23, 2024
Content: Long Form Article
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Want Creativity? Learn to Use Tension and Chaos
Website Publication Date: March 10, 2024
Content: Long Form Article
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Julio Mario Ottino: The Nexus
Website Publication Date: October 20, 2023
Content: In-Person Date & Venue: Oct 20, 2022 – Podcast, Artificiality with Helen and Dave Edwards
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The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World
Website Publication Date: September 21, 2023
Content: In-Person Date & Venue: Sep 28, 2022 – Julio Mario Ottino on The Creative Process Podcast with Mia Funk & Riya Patel
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