To add to the debate…
My own doctoral research is on entrepreneurship models suitable for start-up visual communication practices…. Part of which is discussing if the is a difference between a design entrepreneur and ‘another kind of’ entrepreneur.
As design practices are formed and run by designers and not ‘entrepreneurs’ I am also looking at the skills required of the design practitioner and the design entrepreneur.
Creativity seems to be a common skill.
Which lead me to ask this question...
http://conkennedy.ie/research/what_is_creativity.html
and hopefully explain how designers are different and produce different results.
Not so much a gene, but a cognitive and experiential repository in the individual that can be drawn upon in older to create and develop solutions.
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On 14 Nov 2014, at 18:26, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Rob Curedale <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I saw a reference to a study this morning on the Science Daily site
>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141113074833.htm
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>> For some time I have been interested in the relationship of 3d spatial
>> creativity, evolutionary environments and genetics.
>
> I link my success in the largely 2D world of graphic to the facts that I like to stay home and have been with the same partner for thirty years.
>
>> In the field that I work in Industrial design I have noticed that of the
>> 100 best known designers of the 20th century in the USA almost all lived in
>> more than one country. People such as Jon Ive at Apple, Raymond Loewy or
>> Mies van de Rohe. The most creative designers whom I have worked with also
>> have often travelled a great deal.
>
> It seems that factors other than spatial talents might have contributed. Designers tend to be well known because they do something more-or-less revolutionary. The acceptance of and opportunity for revolutionary action is not evenly distributed. Revolutionary action tends to be associated with other revolutionary action so certain sorts of unstable environments might lead to design fame.
>
> How many of the great designers moved because of political upheavals making staying still dangerous? How many because they had limited opportunities wherever they were? How many because like-minded people were known to be in another place?
>
> The study you cite seems to be about roaming within hundreds of miles. Your diverse environments you talk about don't correspond to political borders. Why is living in more than one country more interesting in this question than living in, say, diverse environments within a country?
>
>> Is it possible that a desire to travel and explore and spatially oriented
>> creativity are linked and genetically inherited to some extent?
>
> Clearly, the answer is yes. It is possible. But since you made a leap by comparing genetic opportunity being connected to spatial skills (such as efficient truck loading) corresponding to relatively-local roaming with the idea that living in multiple countries and/or liking travel corresponds with an undefined "spatially oriented creativity," I'd say that "possible" and "to some extant" are what gets you the "yes."
>
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> Gunnar
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