creativity is the ability to come up with interesting and effective solutions. in lifelong kindergarten, mitchel resnick, creator of the scratch language, points to 4 components needed for creativity.
- projects
- passion
- peers
- playplay
play is a difficult concept to get a grip on, and randolph feezell has a paper arguing for a pluralistic conception of play as
behavior or activity,
motive, attitude, or state of mind,
form...
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gilles deleuze (18 january 1925 - 4 november 1995) was a french philosopher and, to me, the philosopher's philosopher and a sage. his work grapples with difference, creativity, though... is someone who thinks a lot about creativity. in "what is the creative act?" deleuze asks about what it means to have an idea.
a creator is not a preacher working for the fun of it. a creater only does what he or she absolutely needs to do.
if someone produces a block of movement-duration, perhaps this means one might be doing cinema. notice that this has nothing to do with invoking a story or rejecting it. everything has a story. philosophy also tells stories; it tells stories with concepts.
it always comes back to space-time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhZeKKWu1Y