Kyna Leski

The Storm of Creativity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The stages of the creative process—from "unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.

Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process.

Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us—if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. In illustrations that accompany each chapter, she maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm.

Leski describes unlearning, ridding ourselves of preconceptions; only when we realize what we don't know can we pose the problem that we need to solve. We gather evidence—with notebook jottings, research, the collection of objects—propelling the process. We perceive and conceive; we look ahead without knowing where we are going; we make connections. We pause, retreat, and stop, only to start again. To illustrate these stages of the process, Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.

Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. This revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery.

The Creative Process Unlearning Problem Making Gathering and Tracking Propelling Perceiving and Conceiving Seeing Ahead Connecting Pausing Continuing

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262330602
• Artikelnr.: 47703782

Autorenporträt

Kyna Leski is Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and a Founding Principal of 3six0 Architecture. An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership, all published by The MIT Press.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1. Creativity as Storm
Noumena and phenomena in creativity
CHAPTER 2. Unlearning
Abolishing the preconceptions of brainstorming
Uncertainty
CHAPTER 3. Problem Making
Defining a problem
Framing a problem
Crafting problems
Successful problem making
CHAPTER 4. Gathering and Tracking
CHAPTER 5. Propelling
Propelled to perception and conception
CHAPTER 6. Perceiving and Conceiving
"Come to your senses"
An example from medicine
The other way around
The roots of discovery and invention
Investing in what doesn't yet exist
CHAPTER 7. Seeing Ahead
Glyphs
Insight plans
A lesson from Paul Klee
Reiterative cycles
More on imagining and imagination
CHAPTER 8. Connecting
CHAPTER 9. Pausing
CHAPTER 10. Continuing
Beginnings
Beginning again, or re-beginning
The beginner's mind and non-attachment
Giving up completely
Part of a continuum