Developing Usable Experiences

The Evolution of Creativity

February 20th, 2008 11:40 pm —  111 views

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The subject of lecture this week1 was “creativity.” Turns out, some believe that there is such a thing, and it can be measured, while others consider it something that can’t be measured. Problem is, defining creativity is the problem.

Research suggests2 that creativity needs “consensus” to be recognized. I posed the question in class whether there is any other way to determine if something is creative or not? Consensus or opinion?!? Are they different? Does majority win? Dualistic, all those questions. Can there be another way? In the end I didn’t really get an answer but managed to get a chuckle from some off-hand crack I made at the cricket sound that followed my question.

One of the papers we read suggested that we could only imagine things that were comprised of exemplars of experience. Besides loving the word “exemplar”, I can’t help but agree. But at the same time, not totally. To say that “there is nothing new under the sun” is to say that two separate moments can be identical. Um, hello? What a ridiculous notion! After all, are not moments in time wholly and entirely unique3? I recall a Zen saying, “You never step in the same river twice.”

It has been bitingly cold lately and mornings find our furnace running for long periods as it heats our house. I had to grab this picture of Ozzie, our beloved cat named after Chris Osgood, finding a few moments of warmth curled in front of a heat vent. Yes, I was jealous.

Kind of late, given my recent timestamps. But that latte before class and the first 3 episodes of Cowboy Bebop4 and I felt it was time to give a little love to the blog. So I upload pictures, fill-in hyper-links, and crash with a grin. Sort of. Should I not have delegated that request?

Image: I took this today on the 3rd floor of the UGLi. Napping last week in the rows of books is so nice I thought later how cool it would be to get a good picture of all those words, thoughts, and knowledge.

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  1. In my class, Fundamentals of Human Behavior. [↩]
  2. Sorry, but if this were super serious, I’d have to cite the research to which I’m alluding…but alas, it is after 11 PM and this is a blog for Fatori sake. [↩]
  3. What then are “moments in time” you ask? A subject of another blog post…at the very least! [↩]
  4. Thanks Pearl Master for loaning me his TVDVDs. [↩]

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