The Art of Enterprise

Nathan Richardson teaches design, real estate, and entrepreneurship at the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture as an associate professor. He received a Master of Design Studies with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The integration of design and entrepreneurship is central to his research and teaching. He was a 2013 recipient of the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, has twice been named the Riata Fellow of the Year by the OSU School of Entrepreneurship, and received the Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld Prize for Superior Achievement in Real Estate Studies at the GSD.

Part I: Alpha Room; 1. Art and Enterprise; 2. Perception, Cognition, and Imagination; 3. Curiosity, Creativity, and Constraint; 4. Aspiration, Expectation, and Emotion; 5. Value in the Art and Artist; Part II: Beta Portal; 6. Permeability, Chance, and Seeing-As-If; 7. Risk, Return, and Window Making; 8. Prototyping to Understand; 9. Collaborate and Communicate; 10. Co-Creation and Ephemeral Value; Part III: Gamma Field; 11. Context Matters: People, Place, and Time; 12. Discover, Learn, and Find Meaning; 13. Vision and Artistic Agency; 14. Cities, Clustering, and Commerce; 15. Creative Citizenship; Part IV: Delta State; 16. Non-Linear Growth and Layered Lifecycles; 17. Beauty in Learning and the Role of Fear; 18. The Composition of Skills; 19. Designing for Change; 20. Stories and the Impact of Innovation