Approaches to Creativity

Much if the work carried out by Csikszentmihalyi has emphisised how the community that we live in can effect a creative outcome.

"Creativity is just a mental process"
 

Disagree. Creativity involves just as much social and cultural elements. 
 

"Creativity is the product of a single individual" 
 

Disagree. According to Csikszentmihalyi creativity is about the judgments people in different communities make about the individual product. 
 

THE SYSTEMS MODEL 

This sparked an interest with me as it means because community is involved anyone can be creative. Somebody will look at your idea and could make a good judgement. 

Cultural/ symbolic aspect = the domain 

Social aspect = the field 

Creativity can only occur at the "intersection" when the invididual, the domains and the fields all interact. it occurs when the individual makes a change 'in the domain'. 

More likely to make such changes due to personal qualities or your position in society or the "field". If you are wealthy and well respected you are more likely to have more time to experiment and make that 'change'. 

If an idea is liked enough it will be kept in the domain, the people who make these decisions are called the "gatekeepers".

I picked this flow chart as I believe it links Czikszentmihalyi's idea of 'Flow Learning' with scientific method. The idea that trial and error, stress and control are all involved in the scientific process of experiement, much like an artist. I believe it links them both to show how creativity is involved in both. See the labels ScienceAndCreativity or ScientificEnquiry to further explore the idea of the creative link in the Arts and Science.

Other creative approaches:
The idea of 'flow' learning can be seen in the Mantle of the Expert and The Leonardo Effect, see label 'MoE' and 'LeonardoEffect'