Creativity

Creativity

Open Ended

Do you think of yourself as a creative person? Why?

Open Ended

What is creativity?

What is the creativity paradox?

The creativity paradox (Maley)

"Creativity is widely regarded as a desirable quality in many domains: music, the visual and performing arts, literature, science, technology – and even in finance and business. [...]There is however a tension, even a paradox, within the educational domain. Creativity is at the heart of learning. But it is not usually at the heart of education. Institutionalized education depends on control, measurement and conformity. Creativity (rather like its cousin, Critical Thinking) is anathema to systems based on control. However much they claim to be promoting creativity, institutions are dependent on a control paradigm, and thus resistant to anything which threatens that control. Creativity will always have a hard time of it." 

Key components

• "Newness"

• "Immediacy"

• "Respect"

• "Experiment"

• "Divine"

• "Seeing relationships"

• "Unpredictable" & "Acceptance"

Heuristics

 Any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation.

In Maley's words: do the opposite

e.g. Designer methods

Ideas for designing creative materials

(Group work)