The author contrasts an early research passion, creativity and mental illness, with his current interest in creativity and social justice. Kaufman's initial research revolved around the Sylvia Plath Effect, yet was insensitive to broader implications or concerns. As his thinking about creativity has evolved, he is currently more focused on a more positive use for creativity - namely, how creati...

In China, with the development of the era, the Architectural Design (AD) education has been given the requirement that students should master creative thinking mode and design method. The teaching target of integrating the Information-Based Teaching (IBT) into Creative Thinking (CT) mode is analyzed, and the Teaching Mode (TM) of integrating the information-based teaching into architectural des...

Because the cognitive neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in the phenomenon of creativity, the issue arises of how creativity is to be optimally measured. Unlike intelligence, which can be assessed across the full range of intellectual ability creativity measures tend to concentrate on different sections of the overall spectrum. After first defining creativity in terms of the th...

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Recent investigations into the assessment and evaluation of “creative” systems in the field of computational creativity have disclosed several problems common to research within the field. We perform a practical evaluation of the latest iteration of the creative system, DARCI, attempting to address some of these problems using a specially designed, but generalizable, online human survey. Of not...

This paper presents a simple framework for computational design creativity evaluation, presenting its components with rationale. Components are linked to recent computational creativity research in both art and design. The framework assumes that the product, not the process, is being evaluated, and that evaluation is done by comparison with descriptions of existing products using a set of aspec...

I believe to interpret the thought of all the participants to this fourth conference on Generative Art affirming that generative art is a deep creative experience and, somehow, visionary too. This experience, in fact, anticipates the possible evolution of the fields proper of human creativeness, rediscovering paths and approaches to ideation that have been proper of one of the most fertile mome...

Creativity and innovation drive competitiveness in the 21st century enterprises. Dynamic hyper-intensive competitive markets demand widespread innovations from all employees in most global enterprises. Leaders influence and set the contextual environments under which their employees express creativity. This paper will examine how different leadership models relate with individual creativity. It...

Research in design creativity has focused on individual creativity and on creativity in a collaborative or organizational setting. Collective design and crowdsourcing creativity differ from individual and collaborative creative design by building on the foundations of social computing so thatindividuals are motivated to contribute voluntarily. Research that improves our understanding and suppor...

Bilingualism is commonly assumed to improve creativity but the mechanisms underlying creative acts, and the way these mechanisms are affected by bilingualism, are not very well understood. We hypothesize that learning to master multiple languages drives individuals toward a relatively focused cognitive-control state that exerts strong top-down impact on information processing and creates strong...