Peer Reviewed Title: Creative Places: A Dean's Welcome [Speaking of Places] Journal Issue: Places, 17(1) Author: Salovey, Peter Publication Date: 2005 Publication Info: Places Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/00j1k3d9 Acknowledgements: This article was originally produced in Places Journal. To subscribe, visit www.places-journal.org. For reprint information, contact
[email protected]. Keywords: places, placemaking, architecture, environment, landscape, urban design, public realm, planning, design, speaking, creative, Yale, New Haven, dean, Peter Salovey Copyright Information: All rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Contact the author or original publisher for any necessary permissions. eScholarship is not the copyright owner for deposited works. Learn more at http://www.escholarship.org/help_copyright.html#reuse eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Creative Places: A Dean’s Welcome Peter Salovey Mr. President, offi cers, colleagues, families, and most of gressive, outdoor school-without-walls inspired by Nobel all, members of the Class of 2008: I am thrilled to share Prize-winning poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in the stage this morning to welcome you to Yale and to New 1901. Then it was on to the cafes of Paris in the 1920s to Haven. It also is a marker for me: I have played many roles feel the atmosphere of creative revolt as experienced by in this institution, but today you are the fi rst class I wel- Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett. The exhibition come here as the Dean of Yale College: your dean. asked us to appreciate next the endless conversations and This morning I would like to take a few moments to “Copenhagen spirit” that characterized the theoretical fi x our gaze not on ourselves but on what surrounds us.