environmental psychology arc 359 the creative mind
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Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Three domains of creativity: HumourDiscoveryArt
Comic comparison – intended to make us laughObjective analogy – to make us understandPoetic image – to make us marvel
THE ACT OF CREATION
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
THE CONTINUUM - where does architecture fit?
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Making connections between disparate elements
Bisociation
“When two independent matrices of perception or reasoning interact with each other the result is either a collision ending in laughter, or their fusion in a new intellectual synthesis, or the confrontation in an aesthetic
experience.
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
HUMOUR
Two conditions had to exist for ‘homo ridens’ to emerge:
•Relative security of existence (calling for new outlets for excess energy)
•Reasoning must gain a certain degree of autonomy (a nimbleness and independence of thought)
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Pun - ‘the bisociation of a single phonetic form with two meanings.’ (65)
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Witticism - the play of ideas
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
Man and animal – like man and machine, the bisociation of the animal with human characteristics.
Impersonation – the impersonator is perceived as himself and somebody else at the same time.
Child-adult – a form of
impersonation.
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Trivial/Exalted – parody which deflates hollow pretence and destroys illusion.
In science the trivial may be the apple for Newton, the boiling teakettle for James Watt and so on.
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Caricature & Satirethe exaggeration of a particular feature
Originality
Emphasis
EconomyImplicationPicasso
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Intellectual curiosityThe Eureka moment - outwardCatharsis - inward
Tool making - apes
The power of analogyPasteur - “fortune favours the prepared mind”
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION
DARWIN
“All observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of service”
WALLACE“it suddenly flashed upon me . . .”
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
“to invent you must think aside”
“if you strive hard enough to get to India you are bound to get to some America or other”
THE UNCONSCIOUS
“I never think - my thoughts think for me.”
Back to James, Jung and Freud. How do we tap into this well of ideas?
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
Coleridge and Kubla Khan
Word pictures “images rose up as things”
Kubla KhanOR, A VISION IN A DREAM.
In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree :Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round :And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Visualizer vs verbalizer
The poet bisociates between the two
Environmental Psychology ARC 359THE CREATIVE MIND
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