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Three domains of creativity: Humour Discovery Art Comic comparison – intended to make us laugh Objective analogy – to ma

Three domains of creativity: Humour Discovery Art Comic comparison – intended to make us laugh Objective analogy – to make us understand Poetic image – to make us marvel. THE ACT OF CREATION ARTHUR KOESTLER. THE CONTINUUM - where does architecture fit?.

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Three domains of creativity: Humour Discovery Art Comic comparison – intended to make us laugh Objective analogy – to ma

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  1. Three domains of creativity: Humour Discovery Art Comic comparison – intended to make us laugh Objective analogy – to make us understand Poetic image – to make us marvel THE ACT OF CREATION ARTHUR KOESTLER

  2. THE CONTINUUM - where does architecture fit?

  3. Making connections between disparate elementsBisociation“When two independent matrices of perception or reasoning interact with each other the result is either a collision ending in laughter, or their fusion in a new intellectual synthesis, or the confrontation in an aestheticexperience.

  4. HUMOUR • Two conditions had to exist for ‘homo ridens’ to emerge: • Relative security of existence (calling for new outlets for excess energy) • Reasoning must gain a certain degree of autonomy (a nimbleness and independence of thought)

  5. Pun - ‘the bisociation of a single phonetic form with two meanings.’ (65)

  6. Witticism - the play of ideas Man and animal – like man and machine, the bisociation of the animal with human characteristics. Impersonation – the impersonator is perceived as himself and somebody else at the same time. Child-adult – a form of impersonation. "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."

  7. Trivial/Exalted – parody which deflates hollow pretence and destroys illusion. In science the trivial may be the apple for Newton, the boiling teakettle for James Watt and so on.

  8. Caricature & Satire the exaggeration of a particular feature • Originality • Emphasis • Economy • Implication • Picasso

  9. Intellectual curiosity • The Eureka moment - outward • Catharsis - inward Tool making - apes • The power of analogy • Pasteur - “fortune favours the prepared mind”

  10. THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION • DARWIN “All observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of service” WALLACE “it suddenly flashed upon me . . .”

  11. “to invent you must think aside” “if you strive hard enough to get to India you are bound to get to some America or other” • THE UNCONSCIOUS • “I never think - my thoughts think for me.” • Back to James, Jung and Freud. How do we tap into this well of ideas?

  12. Coleridge and Kubla Khan • Word pictures “images rose up as things” Kubla Khan OR, A VISION IN A DREAM. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree :Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round :And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. • Visualizer vs verbalizer • The poet bisociates between the two

  13. Asian Neighborhood Design

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