What isn't being creative? I hit this all the time. Being blinkered,

repetitive, closed and stubborn - great qualities in a despot, deep

researcher in tiny finite area or a bulldozer...



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	Notwithstanding previous postings, I've found myself

increasingly saying

	- either as a preface to or as part of a presentation or

workshop on

	'creativity' - that I think I'm becoming a creativity heretic,

or at

	least an atheist...for the reasons Jenny expounds.

	

	The 'what isn't creative?' question is an interesting one!

	

	Paul

	

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	From: Jenny Moon

	Sent: 20 July 2009 11:17

	To: List for people wishing to share knowledge experiences of

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	design

	Subject: RE: How drafts reveal the creative process?

	

	I have felt, in this discussion, that there is an underlying

sense that

	there is an entity that is called creativity.....that ultimately

we can

	fathom completely by clever and precise use of language.  How

about the

	possibility firstly that there is no one entity called

creativity - it

	is a figment in the mind of each of us, whether it is derived

from

	personal sensations of being creative at times, or from research

of

	literature or of the behaviour of others?

	

	Also, how about the possibility that it will not be possible to

use our

	tools of language, wonderful though they are, to get at this

thing

	called creativity?  I think that, in general, but perhaps

specifically

	in HE (well -  all areas of HE but art and design), we assume

that we

	can deal with anything, and come to an understand of anything

through

	language.  In recent years, I find I have increasing doubts

about this.

	I think that much of what we learn and work with is what I call

'the

	unspoken'.  It cannot be reached or transmitted in language,

except

	perhaps, in example or in the development of constrasts.

	

	We have certainly been working with example, but maybe some

contrasts

	would be interesting - what I might see as creative in contrast

to what

	I see as not creative.  In writing or painting, sometimes I feel

	creative and other times I slog and do not feel creative.  I

think that

	the product may well be the same on both of these occasions -

which

	suggests that one large part of my sense of what creativity is,

is a

	feeling and perhaps a feeling about an outcome.....

	

	Jenny Moon