Anatomy and cognitive abilities are not destiny - an important intellectual or philosophical grounding of this mission is provided by Neil Postman (in his book Postman, N. (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death-Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Penguin Books, New York, p 14):
The invention of eyeglasses in the twelfth century not only made it possible to improve defective vision but suggested the idea that human beings need not accept as final either the endowments of nature nor the ravages of time. Eyeglasses refuted the belief that anatomy is destiny by putting forward the idea that our minds as well as our bodies are improvable!
My presentation will discuss models and illustrations to gain a deeper understanding of distributed cognition and social creativity influenced by our work in the CLever project with people with cognitive disabilities.