Everyday creativity in design process

Everyday creativity in design process

The study of creativity in design has tended to emphasize its value and location in the individual designer as part of a statistically outlying population rather than as a normal characteristic of an entire population. Theories of creativity have generally stressed either its mysterious, gift-like qualities to an individual or as a constructed relationship between consumer and designer. This ar...

Simulating the Everyday Creativity of Readers

Sense-making is an act of everyday creativity. Research suggests that comprehending the world is an act of story construction. Story comprehension, the process of modeling the world of a fictional narrative, thus involves creative story construction ability. In this paper, we present an intelligent system that “reads” a story and incrementally builds a model of the story world. Based on psychol...

Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution

Exploring Creativity in the Design Process: A Systems-Semiotic Perspective

This paper attempts to establish a systems-semiotic framework explaining creativity in the design process, where the design process is considered to have as its basis the cognitive process. The design process is considered as the interaction between two or more cognitive systems resulting in a purposeful and ongoing transformation of their already complex representational structures and the pro...

Creativity in the Everyday: Culture, Self, and Emotions

Nothing is more everyday than emotion, and nothing seemingly less creative. Yet, creativity in the domain of emotion, both eminent and everyday, is the topic of this chapter. As in other domains of creativity, a creative response must be effective in meeting some challenge or standard of excellence. Two other criteria for creativity are novelty and authenticity. Novelty requires that the respon...