A thought for the day about where good ideas come from. Creativity in action. This is a view of the environment in which creativity can come from.

Combining Disney's creativity strategy with education.

I found this post to be interesting because first, i'm a Disney fan and second, I like the way Disney created an environment for "creativity" in the way Disney defines it. Ironically I just came back from watching "Disney on Ice", wonderful show. I think that is why I felt like writing a post that talks a lot about Disney.

Basically the structure Disney set up was this:

It would start with the dream of the entire film, then the realist of how much things would cost and what it would take to make it, and then the critique from the eyes of the audience lets say.

I like that Sylvia Guinan related this process to how education should be and that it would be a better environment for Edupreneurs (Entrepreneurs as it were in the educational system). If any of these three steps is in the wrong order than "the opposing perspectives of traditional academia emerge".

I want to now refer back to my very first definition of creativity and see how these examples can fit. First let me give my disclosure that this is simply free thinking on my part at this point of the blog, and that it is thinking-out-loud if you will.

The first part of the definition talks about how creativity is "a person's awareness of build-able elements that surround them". The build-able elements in the general case of any Disney film would be how aware are the employees (imagineers I believe they are called) are of all the ideas, themes, and other constraints that they have come up with. This will then lead to the second part of the definition "the number and variations of combinations that the person makes with these elements". This is when all of the ideas, themes, and other constraints come together in a whole lot of ways to eventually become a complete and hopefully "creative" film.

I would like to hear what people think about this. It is just a quick thought on creativity that has helped me to learn a little bit more on how one company defines creativity.

A short article

What is creativity

This is an interesting article that starts to ask the question as to the definition of creativity. I am currently new to this abstract concept of creativity however, I wanted to take a stab at giving an initial definition of my own after briefly looking at this article. In rough words I wrote just before going to bed "A person's awareness of build-able elements (physical, theoretical, scientific etc.)  that surround them, and secondly the number and variations of combinations that the person makes with these elements".
Honestly I am excited to see how my definition will be refined and made more accurate. The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.

What does creativity mean? How do we define it? Where does it come from? And lastly, is it quantifiable? These are the questions I hope to explore more through a sociological perspective. Please feel free to add input and insight, I am anxious to explore this more.