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THE STORM OF CREATIVITY SIMPLICITY: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS, LIFE John Maeda, Editor The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda, 2006 The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff, Rich Gold, 2007 Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle, 2009 Redesigning Leadership, John Maeda, 2011 I’ll Have What She’s Having, Alex Bentley, Mark Earls, and Michael J. O’Brien, 2011 The Storm of Creativity, Kyna Leski, 2015 THE STORM OF CREATIVITY KYNA LESKI FOREWORD BY JOHN MAEDA The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or informa- tion storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Scala and Scala Sans by the MIT Press. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Leski, Kyna, author. | Maeda, John, writer of foreword. Title: The storm of creativity / Kyna Leski ; foreword by John Maeda. Description: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016. | Series: Simplicity : design, technology, business, life | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015037746 | ISBN 9780262029940 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Creative ability. Classification: LCC BF408 .L47 2016 | DDC 153.3/5--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037746 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 to (s)p —the b CONTENTS Foreword by John Maeda xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xix 1 CREATIVITY AS STORM 1 Storm 1 Noumena and Phenomena in Creativity 6 2 UNLEARNING 11 Abolishing the Preconceptions of Brainstorming 13 Uncertainty 16 Attentiveness 25 3 PROBLEM MAKING 35 Defining a Problem 39 Framing a Problem 40 Problem Limits 43 Crafting Problems 45 Successful Problem Making 46 4 GATHERING AND TRACKING 49 Gathered Objects 52 Intelligence 56 Tracking 61 5 PROPELLING 71 Syntax 75 Material as Language 76 Propelled to Perception and Conception 80 6 PERCEIVING AND CONCEIVING 83 “Come to Your Senses” 84 An Example from Medicine 91 The Other Way Around 94 The Roots of Discovery and Invention 95 Investing in What Doesn’t Yet Exist 97 7 SEEING AHEAD 103 Glyphs 108 Insight Plans 109 A Lesson from Klee 114 Reiterative Cycles 116 More on Imagining and Imagination 116 8 CONNECTING 121 Darwin as a Connector 123 Connecting across Silos 126 Constructed Connections 128 Analogies: Connections Found through Associative Logic 130 Connecting Driven by Calling 133 Synchronicity: Meaningful Connections Not (Yet) Understood 135 9 PAUSING 143 10 CONTINUING 151 Beginnings 153 Beginning Again, or Rebeginning 154 Rebeginning out of Forgetting and from “Failure” 157 The Beginner’s Mind and Nonattachment 160 Giving Up Completely 163 Part of a Continuum 164 Notes 167 Bibliography 173 Image Credits 179 Index 183
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