Sociomaterial Creativity

Sociomaterial Creativity

1. everyday phenomenon "making the world"

   • he-creativity
     • reserved for geniuses and historic personalities
   • I-creativity
     • idea that we all have creativity in us
     • Divergent thinking
   • life is improvise = creative
   • ppl are constantly transforming, changing and renewing

2. relationship b/w human and material in creativity process

   • metaphors &divers materials as vehicle for communicating complex ideas
   • materials engage our senses and thus our different ways of expression
   • materials communicate pre-existing ways and inform future performative actions

3. continuity and renewal are related

   • adaptation and response to possibilities/barriers
   • the world is always in a state of becoming
   • the past produces the new

4. higher order thinking process

5. creativity is "common"

   • not individual, based upon other's work

6. we should aim to cultivate creativity in this theoretical thinking in mind