https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=373 2025-01-03T07:48:07Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=373 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art > creativity In The Shape of Things Unseen, neurologist Adam Zeman attempts to explain how and why this is. It is a wide-ranging survey – too wide, offering a mass of fascinating information about creativity, mental imagery and child development blo... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660157 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/03/the-shape-of-things-unseen-by-adam-zeman-review-the-science-of-imagination 2025-01-03T07:48:07Z the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657486 https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html 2024-02-10T13:31:40Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1511658 http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/art-and-science-innovation?utm_source=Nesta+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b8acd485b3-Nesta_newsletter_2_9_159_1_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d17364114d-b8acd485b3-180628921 2015-09-12T11:11:31Z The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and d... hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughou... that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of develop... illness like schizophrenia. Many people carry some set o... most don't https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1478258 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/08/412314685/do-creativity-and-schizophrenia-share-a-small-genetic-link-maybe?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150608 2015-06-09T07:42:45Z American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1420987 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-new-ideas-fail/381275/2/ 2014-10-20T10:01:31Z How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ... in Books, Writing | July 1st, 2014 Leave a Comment JK-Rowlings-Phoenix-Plot-Outline At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1377564 http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/j-k-rowling-plotted-harry-potter-with-a-hand-drawn-spreadsheet.html 2014-07-02T16:05:20Z A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1375024 http://rs.io/2014/02/21/problem-solving.html 2014-06-20T08:37:04Z In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a... In this blo https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820658 http://www.serena.ac.uk/ 2012-07-27T10:08:19Z Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som... There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ... Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ... portigal_sk https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=812590 http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/the_power_of_bad_ideas_22446.asp 2012-07-12T12:47:08Z Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=769709 http://www.stickycomics.com/where-do-you-get-your-ideas/ 2012-05-01T12:01:32Z Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon. Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ... The study will examine the psychological impact of being ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=666148 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/scientists-study-psychological-effects-birdsong?CMP=twt_fd 2011-12-21T13:09:30Z The well-established Creativity Research Journal publish... scholarly research capturing the full range of approache... creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultu... educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, ps... social. Int https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=565835 http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=aimsScope&journalCode=hcrj20 2011-10-18T18:19:21Z The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=565829 http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/what-we-do/journal-of-creative-behavior 2011-10-18T18:17:43Z As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus... The conversation usually starts with the following state ... And when co https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=437558 http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/08/visualizing-creative-process.html 2011-05-13T15:33:13Z Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=221048 http://fmeawad.me/?p=282 2010-10-14T20:48:41Z When you’re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=178586 http://www.ideapaint.com/work/ideapaint/ 2010-07-12T17:42:52Z June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains By NICK BILTON brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ... ... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=168945 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/in-defense-of-computers-the-internet-and-our-brains/ 2010-06-18T09:30:28Z Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ... Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ... It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=163671 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm 2010-05-29T16:22:18Z Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis... The researc https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=150235 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201003/brainstorming-may-discourage-creativity 2010-03-31T15:28:41Z One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=107358 http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28918/ 2009-07-20T23:05:49Z Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the mouse and... however his greatest innovations have been in the vision... devised for bootstrapping the innovation, creating a ver... turbo charged learning curve in his lab out of which eme... Thus emerge https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=106313 http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/bootstrapping-strategy.html 2009-07-13T11:55:11Z Volume 63, Issues 4-5, Pages 363-536 (October 2005) ◄... Next vol/iss ► Computer support for creativity Edited by E.A. Edmonds, L. Candy https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=95800 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6829-2005-999369995-605629 2009-05-04T18:42:41Z dr mc schraefel has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engi... Research Fellowship, sponsored by Microsoft Research, to... to discovery for scientists. A vital part of this resear... quest to improve quality of life for scientists through ... information https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=83726 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/podcasts/video.php?id=150 2009-02-15T18:16:59Z Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=72544 http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/61457 2008-12-05T19:47:05Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=72543 http://www.guardian.co.uk/inspire-innovate 2008-12-05T19:46:28Z Volume 2 Issue 1 (2008) Contents Susanne Tak, Marco Plaisier, and Iris van Rooij (2008) ... Magda Osman (2008) Seeing is as Good as Doing Edward P. Chronicle, James N. MacGregor, Michael Lee, T ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=70240 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol2/iss1/ 2008-11-22T10:39:48Z The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes... A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ... In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ... * We prefer stories to statistics. ... * We have faulty memories https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=33981 http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=214 2008-03-08T12:14:24Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=31521 2008-02-21T10:53:22Z Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI... Through rea https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=30760 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swarm-Creativity-Competitive-Collaborative-Innovation/dp/0195304128 2008-02-16T09:30:39Z In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol... Idealized d https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=21806 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1540 2007-12-05T15:49:57Z DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design Instructors: Prof. Dr. M. Rauterberg Faculty Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven ... ediate to advanced level (depending on your commitment). https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=15463 http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/lecturenotes/DAB02(Anti%20Dogmatic%20Design).htm 2007-10-08T10:58:21Z Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings Liane Gabora, ... what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=11377 http://cogprints.org/2105/00/inklings.htm 2007-08-21T09:32:39Z I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six... This chapte https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=10725 file:///Users/alandix/Documents/--Alan/papers/2007/DIS-2007/gabora%20Folder/The%20Beer%20Can%20Theory%20of%20Creativity.htm 2007-08-14T20:26:19Z Digital Creativity is a major peer-reviewed journal at t... the creative arts and digital technologies. It carries a... interest to those involved in the practical task of maki... software for creative purposes. By the term �creative ... such discip https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=10082 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14626268.asp 2007-08-07T10:00:18Z Charissa Borroff Born 1st May, 1977, Nottinghamshire, UK "I draw landscapes in Charcoal, paint abstracts, and I'v ... I grew up in Sherwood Forest. My family moved into Sherw ... ... spacer https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=6362 http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//2744.html 2007-05-26T09:56:59Z I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3207 http://markturner.org/ 2007-01-06T11:51:21Z Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz: The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ... This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1940 http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/RL-modes.shtml 2006-08-17T12:37:02Z # Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable). # Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ... # A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ... # Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ... ... ally rewardi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1654 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) 2006-07-08T16:28:14Z The flow state has been defined as "an intrinsic reward ... in an activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1977), an optimal stat... there is a balance between the perceived challenges of a... person’s skills or capabilities for action (Csikszentm... a centering https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653 http://www.homestead.com/flowstate/files/csikszentmihalyi_four.html 2006-07-08T16:27:45Z do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1558 http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.dic.main?u_code=4395&code_language=EN&language_list=&word=&trg_lg=&phrase_code=6168523&connect_value=1235093&procedure_type=ST&subject_code=&num_row=10 2006-06-15T20:06:27Z This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. I like to think of t... techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as... home for DI https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1347 http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques 2006-04-21T19:40:24Z G. Polya, How to Solve It Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1099 http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html 2006-03-04T15:14:18Z While the name of our process is %u201Cswitch sessions%u... the more general approach to creative collaboration idea... of starting from a blank slate and working together to c... final product, we document some idea seeds. These have n... advantages. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=372 http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/feature/2005/10/brainstorming-vs-idea-seeding-the-new-okcancel-process.html 2005-10-25T08:58:41Z