What is creativity? Tomes as thick as car tyres have been written addressing this question. The recently-released Global Creativity Index offers some answers but that doesn’t mean they’re the right ones.
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‘If these index findings are indeed true then our economic and cultural performance, our overall prosperity, should be better than it is.’
Liberal arts institutions teach students critical thinking skills. But rarely do they learn how to collaborate.
If we can make artificial intelligent machines that act more human it raises the question of what sort of emotions we’d like them to express.
Psychologists have advanced a new theory linking neurotic unhappiness and creativity, arguing that natural worriers may have highly active imaginations and be more creative problem-solvers.
Researchers have suggested a new theory for why neurotic unhappiness and creativity are often found in the same person. But is the assumption that creative people are more neurotic actually true?
Are you a neurotic who overthinks just about everything? Congratulations, it may mean that you could become hugely successful in a creative job.
Humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
Creativity is a concept we’re all familiar with. But where does it come from? And do our intuitive understandings of creativity tally with what’s really going on?
Can creative activism change the world? In 2015, we are seeing seismic shifts in the functions and forms of creativity – and technological change is amplifying its social role.
Given the chance to be creative, young people shine.
It’s not uncommon to hear people deriding reality TV. But isn’t the format just a response to the changing landscape of television?
In the age of the “creative economy”, reality programs are dominating Australian TV. The problem is, reality TV is squeezing the creativity out of our screen culture.
Labour has made a move to put creativity back at the centre of the education agenda in the lead-up to the May general election. In a recent speech, Ed Miliband drew attention to the reduction in arts education…
Playfulness is frowned upon in secondary school. It shouldn’t be.
Much of the creative work we value – whether it’s films, music, novels, or TV shows – requires a significant input of time and resources. The established method for raising the resources to fund such work…
I recently stumbled upon a post that describes the process of literary translation as “soul-crushing.” That’s news to me, and I’ve been engaged in literary translation for the better part of four decades…
Love or loathe him, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) offered a unique way of considering creativity in his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872. Competing creative energies…
Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn’t be. The evidence is well and truly in on this question. The idea that creativity cannot be taught is based…
The view that art is essentially unworldly and creativity is play has a long history, dating back to the Romantics in the 18th century. According to this view, art must be kept separate from money, lest…
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Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa
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Full Professor in Organizational Design and Collaboration Engineering, Technical University of Hamburg
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, UMass Boston
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PhD student, University of Warwick
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Professor of Engineering Innovation, University of South Australia
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Naomi S. Baron is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, Coventry University
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Head of Programmes (Innovation Design Engineering and Global Innovation Design) and Professor of Creativity, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor in Personality Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leeds
