{"id":1014,"date":"2021-08-23T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:48:38","slug":"3-types-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/23\/3-types-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Types of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As defined by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Boden\">Margaret Boden<\/a> in 1992:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking two disparate ideas and bringing them together to form something new. In a sense, I think of this type of creativity as the realm of metaphor extended beyond the explanatory realm and into the realm of realization. It\u2019s maybe more hegelian (I\u2019m a little out of my league here) in that it\u2019s two ideas coming together to form something higher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exploration of conceptual spaces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity loves constraint. This type of creativity happens within, or expands upon, a cultural framework. A bladesmith inventing a new design for a sword. An architect a new design for a home. A new strategy in Chess or Go. A programmer discovering a new algorithm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the conceptual space we just mentioned in <em>exploration<\/em> and expand upon or change boundaries or constraints of the space itself. This is the realm of <em>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/em>. It\u2019s a new type of poetry a la e.e. cummings. It\u2019s going from linear books to Choosing Your Own Adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interaliamag.org\/articles\/margaret-boden-creativity-in-a-nutshell\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As defined by Margaret Boden in 1992: Combination Taking two disparate ideas and bringing them together to form something new. In a sense, I think of this type of creativity as the realm of metaphor extended beyond the explanatory realm and into the realm of realization. It\u2019s maybe more hegelian (I\u2019m a little out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","tag-creativity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}