Agreed - and the conference was for K-12 art teachers - or as they now like to call themselves teaching artist - I found the desire to quantify scary - and am now trying to figure out what the effect of this modeling of creativity will have on higher education and art schools
On 6/12/10 10:12 AM, "William Conger" <[email protected]> wrote: Nothing in the 8 rules, and they are rules drawn from presumed proofs, allow for tacit knowledge. I'm still under the spell of Collins and his treatment of tacit and explicit knowledge. This is just more nonsense from those who claim that creativity can be mapped and predicted. See Greenberg re "concocted" art (or creativity). The drones of society can't abide the fact that some actions can't be predicted or turned into formula. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 9:00:32 AM Subject: Re: "Would aesthetic values if converted or reduced into statistical representation nullify the aesthetic values?" I was at a conference on teaching creativity/ problem solving at the Guggenhiem the other day The general consensus is that the following 8 points constitute creativity 1.The ability to make connections/ observation 2.The ability to articulate the relation between needs and ideas (systemic thinking) 3. the development and acknowledgement of choices 4.connecting goals to means - ability to deal with contingencies 5.material knowledge - limits and possibilities - resource recognition 6.ability to model diverse perspectives - non-linear / non heirarchicathinking 7. adaptability/ ability to abstract ( to apply knowledge from one discipline to another) 8. learning by trial and error- learning from mistakes - integrate evaluation into practice 9.reflect and evaluate (critical and self-critical thinking) - 10. seeing challenges as opportunities 11. role playing Conclusion: creativity is the ability to reformulate a question after it has been answered On 6/11/10 6:02 PM, "William Conger" <[email protected]> wrote: All these laments are so boring. The past never returns and it is always idealized. Get over it. If you don't like art today don't deal with it. Go weep in victorian rooms of your favorite museum. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 3:08:13 PM Subject: "Would aesthetic values if converted or reduced into statistical representation nullify the aesthetic values?" http://www.www.helium.com/items/1603379-aesthetics-and-the-philosophy-of-repr esentation -- --
