The creative cliff illusion

The Illusion of Being Creative

The chapter suggests an approach to presence and how it could be applied to elicit creativity, especially everyday creativity. We believe that it is important to provide cues both to bring out presence as well as to bring forth absence. Our view of creativity rests on the idea of collaboration between consciousness and the unconscious, between the virtual and real as well as between presence an...

Cliff hangers

The peregrine falcon holds a special place in the minds of environmentalists and conservation biologists. The crash in its population throughout the 1950s and 60s was linked to the rapidly increasing use of agricultural organochlorine pesticides which led to a thinning of the birds’ eggshells and dramatic breeding failure. Since the widespread ban on the use of these chemicals, populations have...

Affective Creative Spaces: the interactive tent and the illusion of being

We present descriptive models of the three dimensions of experience, and of the creative process supported by information technology through the development of Creative Spaces. We then focus on an example Creative Space – the Interactive Tent – which is an immersive environment designed to stimulate creativity and to support non-symbolic communication. We use the medium of an artistic productio...

Cliff hanger

The asparagus season has recently ended for northern hemisphere crops. Tradition has it that, at the summer solstice, growers stop cutting spears to allow the plant to grow and produce enough resources to generate spears for the next spring’s crop. The plant is becoming increasingly fashionable and production is increasing to meet demand. But the cultivated asparagus has a wild relative that is...

The Cliff at the Border