I'm a little concerned with the indirection of the questions/answers about
originality/creativity/imagination/rationality etc.
Every time I pass matter it is something new - every drop of rain that falls is a
new beginning - oh how novel and innovative?
The logical possibility of novelty, indeed, the logical necessity of novelty, should
not blind us to the ease or difficulty of the process (experience?). That is, to be
aware of novelty is to be haunted by the spectre of endless creativity. Such misery
is known by plastic artists where the burden falls on editing rather than
orginating.
Equally, the burden of RATIOnality is the perception that things can be related. If
we take the view that metaphor (carry next = bus?) is a fundamental feature of
cognition, then we find ourselves looking at RATIOnality as a feature of creativity
rather than as a feature of mechanical abstraction. Indeed, abstraction itself is a
creative function of cognition and it presents the grounds of design.
Talents are things that can be exchanged!
keith russell
graduate studies
uni of newcastle - OZ
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> Johann van der Merwe wrote:
>
> > It is not that difficult to be "original" or "novel" or "innovative" (says he
> from the >safety of his office). The only trick is to teach yourself, as well as
> you can, how others >have done it, how it works now, what in the past made it
> work as it does, and when you can do >it as well as most you deserve a masters.
> If you can use this platform to make "new" >connections (alliances) in order to
> create something "original" from "everything that has >gone before", then you
> deserve a doctorate.
>
> IMHO it is very, very difficult to be A. creative, B. original and C. consistent
> at the first two.
>
> I say this in the actual practice of design where marketing and bench marking of
> competitive products restrain these two essential (dare I say?) talents.
>
> Is a talent something that can be studied as research by the person with the
> talent?
> Does that same study compromise the ability to create?
> Can I think with a clean sheet of paper with a head full of research
> methodology?
>
> The ability of advanced numerics in some children is later lost through
> education and this fact worries me in light of the ability to retain a talent.
>
> Design research might have paradox at its fundamental core.
>
> Glenn Johnson
> ID Mgr
>
> B/E Aerospace Inc
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