What is creativity anyway?
What Is Creativity Anyway?
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It is very difficult to define creativity since there is a remarkable breadth and number of definitions. In wikipedia we can reed :
"Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways".
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But it is a fact that the vagueness surrounding the concept of creativity seems to render the phenomenon either elusive or trivial.
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Panagiotis Kampylis remarks that the majority of their definitions intersect at the following key components for understanding creativity:
1. Creativity is a key ability of individual(s).
2. Creativity presumes an intentional activity (process).
3. The creative process occurs in a specific context (environment).
4. The creative process entails the generation of product(s) (tangible or intangible).
Creative product(s) must be novel (original, unconventional) and appropriate (valuable, useful) to some extent, at least for the creative individual (s).
And define creativity as “. . . the activity (both mental and physical) that occurs in a specific time-space, social and cultural framework and leads to tangible or intangible outcomes that are original, useful, ethical and desirable, at least to the creator(s)”.
1. Creativity is a key ability of individual(s).
2. Creativity presumes an intentional activity (process).
3. The creative process occurs in a specific context (environment).
4. The creative process entails the generation of product(s) (tangible or intangible).
Creative product(s) must be novel (original, unconventional) and appropriate (valuable, useful) to some extent, at least for the creative individual (s).
And define creativity as “. . . the activity (both mental and physical) that occurs in a specific time-space, social and cultural framework and leads to tangible or intangible outcomes that are original, useful, ethical and desirable, at least to the creator(s)”.
Optional reading
In order to redefine creativity Dr Panagiotis Kampylis reviewed 42 explicit definitions and 120 collocations, trying to analyze and understand definitions. He lists some key studies on creativity definitions in the attached file (click the yellow button).
