Dravidian Futurities: A Creative Process

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 ...

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; ...

A Design Process for Creative Technology

Creative Technology is a new bachelor programme at the University of Twente. Goal of Creative Technology is to design products and applications that improve the quality of daily life in its manifold aspects, building on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The application domains range from recreation to work, from entertainment to learning and from health to art. A paradigm of Creat...