Integrating Creativity Science With GIS

C R E AT I V I T Y S C I E N C E I N T E G R AT I N G GIS WITH TO C R E AT E S U P E R I O R G E O S PAT I A L P R O D U C T S Gretchen N. Peterson | PetersonGIS

The Practiced Components of Creativity CREATIVE PERCEPTION POSTPONE JUDGEMENT Working through an especially difficult Allow your seemingly ridiculous problem with your left-brain processes may ideas to have a moment. Take them not yield creative answers because your left- a step further than you used to. brain is only looking for conventional Don’t shoot them down right away solutions. Your left-brain wants to find a as being too far-fetched. pattern that fits with what it has encountered in the past. This is helpful for many tasks but not for discovering truly When someone comes to you with novel approaches. an idea, ask questions first, make suggestions second. When ideas are While a problem is “on your mind” you want stopped at their very start you will your senses to be tuned in to collecting bits wind up with fewer ideas. of information that previously would have been filtered out. Suddenly, things that would have been deemed irrelevant become important in your quest for a solution. How could we present this to the IT staff? Keep your eyes and ears open by recognizing what seems like coincidence for NOT what it really is – the product of being tuned to the right frequency. Once you realize it IT would never approve isn’t random, you will start to notice even the new technology more.

The Practiced Components of Creativity FLEXIBLE ASSOCIATION IMAGINATION Practice making connections where Give yourself time to visualize there is no obvious link. A surprise solutions. This can be done through twist may lead to an innovative meditation , staring at a wall, taking solution. a shower, or wherever you do your best unstructured thinking. Think of two GIS datasets that don’t We cannot take concerted action if seem related. In 5 minutes or we can’t visualize ourselves carrying less, jot down 2 additional datasets it out. A picture is worth a thousand that could be used to link the words. Group-think solutions don’t original datasets in some way. Even always get implemented because if the end product doesn’t make nobody goes back to their desk and sense, the exercise will increase your actually visualizes the solution in associative skills. see example, below: action – it was all just words. Road Names Bald Eagle Nesting Sites London Roads In this exercise I simply thought up two Nearest American datasets: London Roads and Bald Eagle Nesting Town Names Sites and then sketched out a couple of Towns intermediate datasets that could possibly connect the two.

Why you need to drum-up some new ideas A CASE FOR CREATIVITY SEEING AND DOING By coupling the creative brain with A typical painting class goes back and forth between demonstrations (seeing) and the analytical brain it is much easier student practice (doing). As GIS to create truly superior products that professionals, we already practice the leave positive lasting impressions “doing” aspect in our daily work by making than by using one’s analytical brain maps, designing programs, discovering new alone. analytical pathways, and so on. However, GIS professionals are often lacking in the realm of actively and “Every great advance in deliberately observing and absorbing the science has issued from a new imaginative creations of others. audacity of the imagination.” – John Dewey, philosopher Places to see SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM The geospatial profession is growing. www.americanart.si.edu There is still a lot of room for NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ingenuity in everything from web www.nga.gov map design to creating new spatial THE LOUVRE statistics to applying the technology www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp DAVID RUMSEY HISTORICAL MAP COLLECTION to new fields. www.davidrumsey.com THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART www.moma.org

Additional Creativity Resources SHORT ARTICLES FOR INSPIRATION WEBSITES TO BOOKMARK Life in the Slow Lane by Glenn John Arnowitz www.dynamicgraphics.com/dgm/Article/28924 The Artful Dodger www.smashingmagazine.com by Diane Root www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19food-t.html PRESENTATION ON CREATIVITY www.colourlovers.com The powerful link between creativity and play by Tim Brown www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ti m_brown_on_creativity_and_pl ay.html www.strangemaps.wordpress.com

Additional Creativity Resources EXCELLENT BOOKS Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Uncommon Genius Refactor Your Wetware by Denise Shekerjian by Alan Hunt Orbiting the Giant Hairball The Artist’s Way By Gordon MacKenzie by Julia Cameron Emotional Design Creativity Today By Donald A. Norman by Ramon Vullings, Godelieve Spaas, Igor Byttebier

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