A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond

Visual Re-Representation in Creative Analogies

Visual representations seem to play a significant role in many creative analogies. In this paper, we describe a specific role of visual representations: two situations that appear dissimilar non-visually may appear similar when re-represented visually. We present a computational theory of multi-modal analogy in which visual re-representation enables analogical transfer in cases where there are ...

Suppporting Creative RE with i

Successful software must be both useful and innovative. Techniques for Requirements Engineering (RE) have mainly focused on utility, with a prominent body of work using goal modeling and analysis to ensure that systems meet user goals. However, these techniques are not designed to foster creativity, meaning that resulting systems may be functionally useful but not sufficiently innovative. Furth...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations∗

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a firstorder impact on creative innovations– innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across different firms with differen...

Interactive Storytelling for Creative People