Occasionally a third party will step forward to create something braced with innovation that pushes forward the work from a whole group of creators. At the moment I’m talking about Copenhagen Metro and their innovative new installation featuring work from Danish writers, poets and graphic artists made available in booklet form to the public free of charge

The Copenhagen Metro project is part of the Subway Letteratura project located in Milan Italy. Check out their website for more info along with the website for the Metro project. Innovation rests in many shadows just waiting for someone to shine the light, then it can blossom.

Below is the list of the first group who’s work has been made available to the public, you can also download these booklets online from the Metro Literature website HERE    And congratulations to the 13 artists who where chosen, illuminate your innovation.

Poets:
Maria Krogh Iversen, Vinoth Paramasamy, Mette Norrie, Anna Hook, Philip Tafdrup, Louise Rose Green, Birgitte Krogh Bendix;

Authors:
Louise Vangsted, Nitesh Singh Parwana, Bo Nøddeskov, Anne Iversen, Kristian Vessø Jensen, Amalie Hassing, Mikkel Krebs Behnke, Emma Elizabeth Kjær Nielsen, Nanna Færgemann, Victor Boy Lindholm, Zelal Önder, Nicholas Jungblut Knutsson, Eskil Juul Elling, Ida Emilie Hansen Morten Carlsen;

Graphic:
Ethem Erdogan.

The project is a collaboration between the publisher Subway Letteratura and the Copenhagen Metro and has the dual objective of providing reading material of high quality for Metro passengers and simultaneously promoting the new literary talents. Jonas T. Bengtsson, member of the jury, says it is “a really exciting project, a new way to get young or new literature on – I can even remember how hard it was when I debuted, and knows how difficult it is for new writers to get the opportunity to be read. “

Thanks to Guerrilla Innovation for the original post on this project and for the image above.

Innovation Is Dead. It Was Killed By Innovation written by Rob May on his blog Coconut Headsets succeeds both in entertaining and in shaping your thinking processes around the question itself. Is Innovation Really Dead? At first it seems like a silly question but May manages to create a real look into the question

The post ends with the following paragraph, it’s my hope you will find it engaging enough to follow the link and go read it. 

“So how can we revive innovation? Well, I think that since innovation put us in this position, it’s the best thing to get us out. I think we will see innovation that restores the serendipity to our intellectual lives, and breaks the stranglehold that power laws, social networks, and popularity have over our neural inputs. I don’t know when this will happen, so in the meantime, if you want to be more innovative, take some time to unplug from the world of power laws and plug in to something random, something old, something no one else is reading or watching or hearing. Vary your inputs, and maybe you will be the one to have that new output that restarts our innovations.“

Innovation Is Dead. It Was Killed By Innovation