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those who dare to operate with what the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Michael Boyd i
(2007), calls ‘flappy valves’ , willing to engage with what could be rather than purely what is.
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i. I am grateful to the reviewer who noted that in a medical context, flappy valves may in fact be bad for the health; in the context of creativity, flappy valves offer a sometimes unexpected two-way flow of ideas, and are posited as bringing potential benefit, in part because of the element of surprise.
UNESCO OBSERVATORY, FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND PLANNING, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE REFEREED E-JOURNAL