Architectural Design as an Intermedial Creative Process - Scenography as a Creative Tool

Metaphor: a Creative aid in Architectural Design Process

In the developing world, skills in innovation and creative design have emerged as key attributes for graduating designers. Creativity is essential if we want to generate new solutions to the considerable and complex problems in architecture. Metaphor is frequently expressed as a key tool for enhancing creative design, yet little empirical research has been performed on how novice designers can ...

An Account of Writing as Creative Design

This chapter attempts to answer the question " how do we write? " by looking beyond writing as a problem-solving process to consider the writer as a creative thinker and a designer of text. The aim is to take a step towards a general account of the processes of writing, and to resolve some of the seeming contradictions in studies of writers, such as: • writing is a demanding cognitive activity,...

The Creative Process 1 Running Head: the Creative Process the Creative Process with Visualization as an Enabler

The mechanisms underlying the cognitive process behind creativity can be severely limited by short-term memory capacity as well as by developing a solution with a ‘closed-mind,’ meaning that the creator is limited by his/her own tunnel vision which limits creativity. Visualizations are a physical representation of the semantic networks that are created during the creative process as a creator s...

Creative Flow as a Unique Cognitive Process

Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process

Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought or cognitive state changes the ‘selection pressure’ against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Creative thought is more a matter of honing in a vague idea through redescribing successive iterations of it from different real or imagined perspectives; ...